Judy Collins Quotes

Capitalism can be helpful, but it can also be destructive when it's used by huge enterprises worldwide for the sale of weapons.

Judy Collins

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• Impulses are hard to come by these days.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Hard
  • Come
  • Days

• I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Family
  • Kids
  • House

• I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.

  

  Omar Sy
  • Good
  • Me
  • Doing

• I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Today
  • Imagination

• I started when I was really young. I was playing with my dad when I was 8 or 9, and I started playing shows then. I had a short stint in a DIY all-girl punk cover band.

  

  Verite
  • Girl
  • Dad
  • Band

• Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Business
  • Mother
  • Advice

• All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding

• To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • World
  • Good
  • Confidence

• I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around the guitar, learning chord progressions and that sort of thing. So the singing aspect of what I do has been a secondary adventure.

  

  M. Ward
  • Learning
  • Myself
  • Singing

• One can only imagine how Iranians or Afghans would deal with unelected judges moving to de-Islamicize their nations.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Moving
  • Imagine
  • Judges

• I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Job
  • Food
  • Wine

• I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Want
  • Taken
  • Serious

• Conflict is the pursuit of truth.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Truth
  • Conflict
  • Pursuit

• I don't know what else you could do that is more vulnerable - maybe dancing - than singing.

  

  Adam Driver
  • You
  • Know
  • Singing

• China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • People
  • Know
  • China

• As you ride in a steeplechase, and you're on the horse, going quite fast, you think, 'That's quite a big fence...' But trust the horse, and don't give him any reason to doubt you.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Trust
  • Doubt
  • Horse

• My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.

  

  T-Pain
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Voice

• The greatest sin is carelessness.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Sin
  • Carelessness

• You can only get next to God through the effort of preparation. To experience the uncreated, the state of awareness will have to be held for several minutes. You are then between time and the time-less - waiting for the unknown, which will come but cannot be willed.

  

  Barry Long
  • God
  • Experience
  • Waiting

• They are interested in conservation and the issues involved in saving monarch habitats in both the United States and Mexico.

  

  Chip Taylor
  • Issues
  • Interested
  • Conservation

• If the theatre has taught me anything, it's that when things change in the body, in the body politic, in the body of the world, in the body of the earth, in the body of the person, there's change. You never go back.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Change
  • Theatre
  • Go Back

• It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear – usually justified – the other side would beat them to a pulp.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Country
  • Fear
  • Race

• Capitalism can be helpful, but it can also be destructive when it's used by huge enterprises worldwide for the sale of weapons.

  

  Judy Collins
  • Used
  • Weapons
  • Capitalism