Judy Collins Quotes
Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
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I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.
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I do a lot of voice over for Japanese anime titles as well as live-action stuff and original stuff from the States. 'Legion of Super Heroes,' 'New Wolverine: The X - Men' animated series, 'Afro Samurai' and some live-action stuff, TV shows here and there - I like to mix it up.
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
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I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it. You don't have a lot of options in Indiana anyway, though, so I didn't want to stay there. I graduated early and worked a bunch of really odd jobs, and then I joined the Marines.
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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
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Let me say something else about this generation. As Commander-in-Chief, I’m pretty tired of some folks trash-talking America’s military and troops.
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When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark: But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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The exact sciences, which would be considered a priori as little adapted to women, for example mathematics, astronomy and physics, are exactly those in which thus far they have most distinguished themselves. This contains a warning against too precipitate conclusions about the intellectual life of woman.
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Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.
