Judy Collins Quotes
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There's a spirit of Latina women in all of my work, in the love of the body and the strong sense of self.
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A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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The best way to get students involved in science and want to follow either science careers or incorporate it in their lives or to achieve science literacy is to expose them to the various jobs in STEM. It's broad from biologists to electricians to nanotechnologists to building fusion engines. It's a wide range of things.
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I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.
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In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
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Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
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In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people's individualism.
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My children were brought up with their grandparents, and I was brought up with my grandparents. I think the continuity of moving through life together gives people a certain pride and sense of security.
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In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.
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This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata of consciouness - namely sensual, mental and intellectual.
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Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.
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My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.
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Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for. Refuse to compromise.
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To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.
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I would say that I have been consistent in my broad view of how American power should be deployed, and the view that we underestimate our power when we restrict it to just our military power. We shortchange our influence and our ability to shape events when that's the only tool we think we have in the toolbox.
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This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class.
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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
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To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life
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In [Philip] Howard's view, our reliance on law, lawyers, and lawsuits has turned Americans into fat, neurotic cowards who 'go through the day looking over their shoulder instead of where they want to go.'
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In a universe that defies description, all systems of belief can only be false.
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If you can find any other view of the world which agrees over the entire range where things have already been observed, but disagrees somewhere else, you have made a great discovery.
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When you have a belief, then you make your views known.
