Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Mitchell) Quotes

In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

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• Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Home
  • Feeling
  • Me

• We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • Long
  • Tax

• I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Time
  • Start
  • Brothers

• A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • People
  • You
  • Lady

• All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.

  

  Xenophon
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Dreams

• I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Live
  • Night

• Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Business
  • Success
  • Failure

• Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Man
  • Lose
  • Anger

• I'm always trying to push for women's rights.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Rights

• At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Heart
  • Day
  • End

• We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

  

  A. J. Muste
  • Life
  • War
  • Peace

• I think lobbying is really an honest profession. Lobbying means trying to persuade Congress to accept your point of view. Sometimes you can give them a lot of facts they didn't have before.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Trying

• Gallows, n. A stage for the performance of miracle plays, in which the leading actor is translated to heaven 

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Heaven
  • Miracle

• The increasing diversification of media ecosystems after decades of state control, along with new digital tools that allow for greater citizen engagement, have led to a dramatic reshaping of the dynamics between citizens, media, and government.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Control
  • Engagement

• Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.

  

  Daniel Webster

• A lot of factors go into the longevity of a show.

  

  Eric Close

• You don't wanna go eggin' him on. It'll never be my chair that your on, crown so tight that it cuts off circulation to the brain no oxygen. Other words there's no heir to the throne.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Brain
  • Chairs
  • Crowns

• My favorite film of all time is 'Raising Arizona.' I watched it again as soon as it was over. I had it on VHS, rented it, and I watched it and said, 'I want to watch that again, right now.' I think I did the same with something like 'Goodfellas,' which is a completely different genre.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Different
  • Think

• I like Sprite a lot, but I try not to drink it. My mom doesn't want me to drink Sprite because it's unhealthy. So she always has me drink water, but it's hard not to!

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • She
  • Me
  • Mom

• I would die without goals or a focus. I need something to keep me going.

  

  Katrina Kaif
  • Die
  • Focus
  • Goals

• To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Love
  • Space
  • Tragedy

• In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.

  

  Joni Mitchell
  • Music
  • Born
  • Tragedy