Joan Osborne Quotes
Being an artist is not exactly the most universally respected, or secure thing to do with your life. It can be frightening and you can feel that you're taking a lot of risks just with your own life, and your family's security. But the rewards outweigh those things.
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I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
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I'm a strong fighter, I'm a fighter who can adapt to my surroundings.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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I am always fascinated by India.
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People want fashion from us, whereas they might buy core styles from other designers.
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Sensation is amphibious: at the same time it joins us to and divides us from things. It is the door through which we enter into things but also through which we come out of them and realize that we are not things.
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One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.
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It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.
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I was never much of a club guy. Even when I was in New York in the early eighties, I never was once in Studio 54. It was too noisy. My version of those years mostly took place at my house.
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Sex and drugs were simply not discussed in our culture at that time.
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Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.
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When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country, since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.
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It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.
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Talent - really, everyone agrees, it's multidimensional, and often overlooked in standard assessments. That's not hard for people to accept.
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Yoga serves the individual, and does so through inviting transformation rather than by giving information.
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If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.
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[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile.
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O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners!
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Praise from the praise-worthy is beyond all rewards.
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Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.
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Being an artist is not exactly the most universally respected, or secure thing to do with your life. It can be frightening and you can feel that you're taking a lot of risks just with your own life, and your family's security. But the rewards outweigh those things.
