Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Mitchell) Quotes
Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.
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I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.
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It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
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I'm going to prove to the fans, going to prove to my teammates, that I can be a better defensive player, offensive player, to win games.
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Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.
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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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If people make a lot of introductions, should they get recognized for it? I've never seen a score showing who's a good connector. That'd be useful, right?
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A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
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There's no denying it: I was a crappy baby who failed his way into this world, and I've been making the best of it ever since.
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I loved doing 'Homeland.' I loved playing Brody.
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You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.
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When children start to speak they find their own voice by imitating the sounds around them. It would follow that bands do the same. Bands will find their own voice at some point.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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It is odd what notions men seem to have of the scantiness of a woman's resources. They do not find it anything out of nature that they should be able to exist by themselves; but a woman must always be borne about on somebody's shoulders, and dandled or chirped to, or it is supposed she will fall into the blackest melancholy!
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It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.
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Fashion is about good energy. It's about feelings. That's what I have to give the people, good energy and good feelings.
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I will live this day as if it is my last. …I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, Yesterday’s defeats, yesterday’s aches of the heart, for why should I throw good after bad?
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'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight.
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Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.
