Joan Jett Quotes

I've always got something to say.

Joan Jett

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• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• 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.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Desire
  • Religious
  • Married

• 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.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • Differences
  • Point
  • Accept

• Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Family
  • Death

• Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Money
  • Culture
  • Education

• We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Know
  • Always
  • Appreciate

• You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • You
  • Know
  • Rock

• You used to queue for three days and two nights for tickets for Rubinstein. People stayed in the queue for the whole day.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Day
  • Three

• 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.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Fun
  • Fans

• Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • History
  • Try
  • Library

• 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.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Done
  • Free
  • Honor

• 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.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Believe
  • Children

• The twin-evil against which the prophets launched the condemnation of Jehovah was injustice and oppression.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Evil
  • Twin

• 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.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Help

• 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.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Party
  • Practice
  • Brother

• 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.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Great
  • Soul
  • Fly

• We are, even now, killing ourselves over ancient literature. Who would have thought something so tragically absurd could be possible?

  

  Sam Harris
  • Literature

• En Romanos, rerum dominos, gentemque togatam!

  

  Augustus

• ...now that everyone could vote from home, via the OASIS, the only people who could get elected were movie stars, reality TV personalities, or radical televangelists.

  

  Ernest Cline
  • Vote
  • Personalities
  • Elected

• Kafka is one of my very favorite writers. Kafka's fictional world is already so complete that trying to follow in his steps is not just pointless, but quite risky, too. What I see myself doing, rather, is writing novels where, in my own way, I dismantle the fictional world of Kafka that itself dismantled the existing novelistic system.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Writers
  • Steps
  • Novels

• I've got a lot of other things I want to do.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Want
  • Things
  • Got

• Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.

  

  Paul Wolfowitz
  • Action

• I've always got something to say.

  

  Joan Jett