Joan Jett Quotes
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
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I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.
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We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
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Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.
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We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
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You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.
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You used to queue for three days and two nights for tickets for Rubinstein. People stayed in the queue for the whole day.
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The thing I love about Wisconsin is the people. We have such incredible people here. It's fun to recognize the incredible athletes and coaches and sponsors and people we have here tonight. But we also have incredible fans.
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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
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They had done him the honor to take him for a madman, but had set him free on discovering that he was only a poet.
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A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.
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The twin-evil against which the prophets launched the condemnation of Jehovah was injustice and oppression.
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A member of the community should conduct himself always by word, mind and body in such a fashion that it results in help to the society. He should also make his own men understand this.
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Practice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Schlitz Malt talls. My brother would go out at 7pm to party and get laid, and when he'd come back at 3am, I would still be sitting in the same place, playing guitar. I did that for years - I still do that.
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Cold, impossible, ahead Lifts the mountain's lovely head Whose white waterfall could bless Travellers in their last distress.
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I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore.
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I am Jewish, but I love Christmas, as most Jews with any taste do, because Hanukkah is lame.
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I listen to KCRW in the car and Pandora radio, which I stream through the stereo from my iPhone. I've been listening to everything from Caribou to Conway Twitty. If I'm going on a longer car ride, I'll download some podcasts.
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I still have to say that I did 'Dirty Pretty Things' 11 years ago. That was a very sudden shift in my life and my relationship to my work, and it didn't feel it was impossible to make a film like that.
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There are so many great actors, but I really have a lot of respect for Johnny Depp. I've seen a lot of movies with him in it and, even if it's a film that wasn't as successful as you thought it would be, I've never seen him put in a bad performance. My favorite actors from history have to be Steve McQueen and James Dean.
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I've always got something to say.
