Judy Collins Quotes
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.
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As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.
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You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
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Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen.
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Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
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I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return.
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Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.
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Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.
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But in order for anyone to become successful, sometimes you have to be that driven and focused, and maybe there isn't a lot left over for personal relationships - although I certainly have had them. It's not as if I cut myself off, but it makes them very difficult. This profession is very hard on relationships.
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As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.
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Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.
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And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise.
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I often write things, and then I think it's too personal for the Moodies. It's not something that I could share with other guys to say.
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The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.
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It's an extension of what I do also as part of making my living - I go into schools and work with kids on writing, and I do assembly programs often. Each one is different because each school has different requirements.
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I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .
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I have so many single girlfriends who fit themselves into the mold of what they think a guy's looking for. But being comfortable around men is about being comfortable with yourself. They gravitate toward confidence. Really, that is what they want to be around.
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Condition and guts take over where knowledge and skill end.
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I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings.
