Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Mitchell) Quotes

The times you impress me the most are the times when you don't try.

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• I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • See
  • Books
  • Fabulous

• How lucky am I?

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Lucky
  • How
  • Am

• Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Animal

• It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • People
  • Time
  • Funny

• Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Scared
  • Brothers
  • Egypt

• The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Genius
  • Public
  • Tolerant

• I don't like attacking.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Like
  • Attacking

• I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Want

• If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• I do suspect that this world is hell.

  

  Francesca da Rimini
  • World
  • Hell
  • Suspect

• On almost every environmental issue I care about, in fact, I've been wrong at one point or another. I used to think that climate change was no big deal, that most environmental problems were massive exaggerations, that oil reserves were effectively unlimited, and more.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Change
  • Care
  • Environmental

• Debs is greater than Lincoln. Debs is the spokesman of the great struggling working class of all races, nationalities, creeds, sexes.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Great
  • Working
  • Class

• The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Music
  • Dream
  • Enough

• Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish society, not just the remnants of the defeated clans.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • America
  • Society
  • Political

• I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Work
  • Love
  • Food

• Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Work
  • Health

• Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Balance
  • Tax
  • Budget

• You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • Career
  • You
  • Reach

• Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
  • Time
  • Win
  • Chess

• Zef is the underbelly of the Afrikaans culture, but it also, like, is Afrikaans culture.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Culture
  • Like
  • Also

• After school, I got a job in a shop in Hollywood and shared an apartment with a friend. I promptly lost my job and got evicted from my apartment, and that happened several times.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • School
  • Job
  • Lost

• In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Real
  • Blow
  • Deals

• The times you impress me the most are the times when you don't try.

  

  Joni Mitchell
  • Try
  • Times
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