Judy Collins Quotes
Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.
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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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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 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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We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.
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Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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And I realize now that that was . . . that’s the best way to love someone. Hold them close, know that you’re loved, let it wash over you.
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Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.
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I became the messenger who had to be killed.
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First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.
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Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.
