Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Mitchell) Quotes
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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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.
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Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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I don't like attacking.
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I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.
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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.
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I do suspect that this world is hell.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.
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And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
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When I was a young boy, I preferred cats to dogs. From the age of seven or eight onwards I just felt more comfortable with cats. And I felt more comfortable with girls, I didn't really like hanging out with guys. When I was about ten or eleven, I was friendlier with the girls in my school than with the guys.
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Berlin has traditionally backed a rules-based eurozone in which every member state is responsible for its own finances, including bank bailouts, with political union limited to a fiscal overlord's possessing veto power over national budgets that violate the rules.
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First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago.
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Usually if you're the center of a show, part of your job is to host its energy.
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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
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My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.
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These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.
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The times you impress me the most are the times when you don't try.
