Judy Collins Quotes
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I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.
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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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I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.
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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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If there's a God, and we have all this evidence that there's evolution, but He created the world only 6,000 years ago - what is the best and most logical explanation to reconcile those two things? I came up with - He came up with it, of course - that all things are fakeable.
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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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Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
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I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark and reach for the light - that's what makes it not depressing to me.
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Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.
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Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get.
