Judy Collins Quotes
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Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
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I'm looking forward to losing the long locks at some point. But it's been fun, and I do enjoy it.
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I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
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I want to serve the people.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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That's my hunger. If I start to relax, and I lose that, then I had better stop my football. I need that hunger. I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
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I'm more comfortable performing in front of 50,000 people than five people - it's easier. When there's that many people, I feel like I'm alone. When I perform in front of only a few people, it's scary.
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Without electricity, there can be no art.
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When I'm on the court, I picture myself as like a gladiator.
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I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings.
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Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication. And so many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old.
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I was born in Alabama, but I only lived there for a month before I'd done everything there was to do.
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Sometimes I walk into a situation and know someone is going to provoke me, and I just simply refuse to be provoked.
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To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.
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Design is a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order. Design is both the underlying matrix of order and the tool that creates it.
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This is an event of such horrifying, unimaginable proportions that I believe it is one where shock grows with time rather than diminishes.
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We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.
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Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.
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Fred Moten is a poet I really love because he changes who is telling the poem all the time.
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Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing.
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Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get.
