Joan Osborne Quotes
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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Fortunately, the music from the first record really connected with people, and I was really proud of that.
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As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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Bathrooms are, on a square foot basis, the most expensive room in the house to renovate. If you want to test your heart's fitness, try shopping for simple bathroom faucets. Add in the cost of the required valves, mixers and trims, and you may need reviving when you see the tally!
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I don't go out, so I don't get attention from girls. They're not going to have posters of me on their walls. I just try to get on with my life.
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I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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I've always wanted a 'Full House' reunion, so when you see stuff like this comes back, it's super exciting.
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What's fun is that the characters in 'Broad City' are rushing and hustling, and our process reflects that.
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By thy cold breast and serpent smile,By thy unfathom'd gulfs of guile,By that most seeming virtuous eye,By thy shut soul's hypocrisy;By the perfection of thine artWhich pass'd for human thine own heart;By thy delight in others' pain,And by thy brotherhood of Cain,I call upon thee! and compelThyself to be thy proper Hell!
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Kandinsky was connected with Die Brücke and the Blue Rider: they had a concept and created a reality. But I prefer Jean Fautrier French painter-artist; 1898 - 1965 with his suffering and self-absorption. And his purpose on bringing about changes was just as strong. As a result I see in Fautrier a stronger paradigm than in Kandinsky..
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As an older lineman, if you start to sit around, you get stiff. You get tired. Things start to set in.
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Joan of Arc was born 600 years ago. Six centuries is a long time to continue to mark the birth of a girl who, according to her family and friends, knew little more than spinning and watching over her father's flocks.
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It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.
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Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference where the theme comes from; the treatment of it can be jazz.
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Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.
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A will finds a way.
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We have an educated and cynical electorate.
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Music has always felt very real to me.
