Joan Osborne Quotes
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
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This is very intriguing to think we should audit the Fed, but I discovered that probably if they audited the Fed, it would get a clean bill because it's undoubtedly doing exactly what it's supposed to do according to the law.
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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
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I do think it's possible to change for the better.
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We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.
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I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.
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Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder.
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If Assad continues to conduct strikes against the Free Syrian Army at will, it would be very difficult for them to have any success against ISIS.
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I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
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Ownership is a very complex judicial concept.
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Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.
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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
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I wanted to be a comedian.
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When studios start telling me why a particular film project won't work, I remember 'Rocky.' I remember that the biggest success Bob Chartoff and I have had was a film nobody wanted to make.
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I've seen very few Hispanics and blacks who have been able to work their way into the advertising end of business.
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I try to use pain as fuel for my work.
