Judy Collins Quotes

My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.

Judy Collins

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• There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Life
  • Good
  • Power

• Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners collude out of mutual interest in their sport's image and general welfare, there are no real alliances or partnerships in boxing.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Real
  • Sports
  • Professional

• The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Great
  • Business
  • Lesson

• One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Up
  • Free
  • Morning

• It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Solution

• Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Inspiration
  • Results

• I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got the greenlight. And when it finally got the greenlight, I was very happy to be a part of it.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Time
  • Long
  • Movie

• When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Girl
  • My Own
  • Bedroom

• To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.

  

  Sally Mann
  • People
  • Time
  • Care

• From a spinner's perspective, in India it was never easy for me to judge where to stand: how far forward, how far back, because on Indian wickets the ball does not carry as much as abroad. That is true of slip fielding in general. I wouldn't say only for spinner – even for a fast bowler, that holds true.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • True
  • Judge
  • Perspective

• It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I've had a very full and lovely career so far, and I can't honestly say that I've ever really found myself in a man's world, struggling for an identity or trying to prove something.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • World
  • Trying
  • Career

• There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • School
  • Together
  • Support

• It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Important
  • Business
  • Remember

• Every profession in which woman's soul comes into its own and which can be formed by woman's soul is an authentic woman's profession.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Soul

• I saw this on CNN a few days ago. In New York these cops freaked out. They shot at this guy like 15 times 'cause they said they thought he had a a grenade. HE WAS EATING A PEAR! How do you fuck that up?! Unless he was eating it like 'AHHHHHH! *throws pear* THAT'S A DELICIOUS PEAR!!!'

  

  Dane Cook
  • Up
  • Guy

• Burglars! Good gracious!' cried the little woman, springing from the bed in one bound. The word 'burglar' was a terrible one to her, as it is indeed, to every well-constituted woman. 'Robbery' does not sound nearly so awe-inspiring.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Good

• My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the century. He was killed in the line of duty. My father, who was 16, was the oldest son, so he had to quit school and go to work to support his mother.

  

  Bonnie Bedelia
  • Work
  • School
  • Mother

• It is so rare...to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent and restless as ours to meet and to be matched together, that I hardly know how to tell you what happiness it gives me to know you.

  

  Hector Berlioz
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Imagination

• I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton Rouge to lobby to get rid of the housing projects and privatise the school system - I thought I was in some science-fiction experiment.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • School
  • Science
  • Powerful

• You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Respect

• Something that can be so vital at one point can be inconsequential at another. I'm just intrigued by that phenomenon.

  

  George C. Wolfe

• My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.

  

  Judy Collins
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Singing