Joan Osborne Quotes
There's so many different ways humans have used music to express the spiritual part of our nature and to connect us with the divine. So for me the pathway is through music.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
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Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.
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It seems like WikiLeaks has better information on Hillary Clinton than she does herself.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?
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A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
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That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.
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I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.
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It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.
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I have a ranch, which is my favorite place in the world.
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Since 9/11, the Justice Department has been widely criticized for one particular tactic it uses in fighting the War on Terror: it detains suspicious persons for long periods of time and puts them under heavy questioning before they are ever even charged with a crime.
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If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
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We in Wales see ourselves as a nation. We're not English. We're far from it. Yeah, we're part of the U.K. We've benefited from being members of the U.K.
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I work with history because I come from a country that has a tremendous thirst for reality.
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There's so many different ways humans have used music to express the spiritual part of our nature and to connect us with the divine. So for me the pathway is through music.
