Judy Collins Quotes
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.
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I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.
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I lost two brothers in an airplane crash, both of them leaving a wife and kids. When I get to Heaven, that's probably the first question I'd like to ask: 'Why was it necessary?'
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I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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I have always done exercise because I was a dancer, and it is probably good for you. I have done yoga consistently.
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I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'
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I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old... Your days are gone; it is part of life.
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I don't know how to dance, and I don't have any extra flexible skills.
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I've always wanted to be a writer. Ever since I learned to read, I've wanted to share stories with others the way my favorite writers shared their stories with me.
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I tried to look around to see what I wanted to do. Football was something I knew the most about.
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A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.
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My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.
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You learn from it, then you have to come back to work. I've been in this predicament many times.
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When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.
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You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn't like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that's about all you can do.
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When I was eight, my mum found me humming to myself and scribbling on a scrap of paper. When she asked me what I was doing, I got shy. I was writing a Christmas song, and I had never shared my music with anyone before. Reluctantly, I sang it for her... and she loved it. Of course she did - she's my mum.
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If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.
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The opening line from a journal can be the beginning of a song.
