Joan Jett Quotes
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
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The fact to the matter is, we never developed a comprehensive strategy to deal with radical Islam. And the 9/11 commission said one of the things we must do is develop a global alliance to combat it.
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There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
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One of the cool things about amateur athletics is that, I think, the pursuit is sort of the pursuit of excellence for nothing more than trying to be excellent.
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Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.
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Whenever there's negotiations, there's things that you absolutely love, and there's things that you accept.
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Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.
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I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.
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I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved there had come from places just like Shepperton, and so they built and lived in houses exactly like these. I now know I was drawn here because, on an unconscious level, Shepperton reminds me of Shanghai.
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Every film for every actor is a make-or-break film. I believe every film has the power to break you or make you. So, an actor will treat every film like his last film. That's the way we need to work, and that's the way you can drum up that passion needed to do good work.
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There was only so much television you could do.
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I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
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I want to regain my First Amendment rights.
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The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; ... the wise does neither.
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We are created for precisely this sort of suffering. In the end, it is all we are, those limpid tide pools of self-consciousness between crashing waves of pain.
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What is beyond the cathedral, outside, Balances with nuptial song. So it is to sit and to balance things To and to and to the point of still, To say of one mask it is like, To say of another it is like, To know that the balance does not quite rest, That the mask is strange, however like.
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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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This is a state of graceThis is the worthwhile fightLove is a ruthless gameUnless you play it good and right
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It took me a long time to adjust and narrow down my life. I made my shift to the mind-set … there's time for my daughter outside work and that's all. This is my new life. This is not drudgery. This is fun.
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We reckoned we could make it because there were four of us. None at us would've made it alone, because Paul wasn't quite strong enough, I didn't have enough girl-appeal, George was too quiet, and Ringo was the drummer. But we thought that everyone would be able to dig at least one of us, and that's how it turned out.
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During my most recently controlled near-death experience, I got to interview William Shakespeare. We did not hit it off. He said the dialect I spoke was the ugliest English he had ever heard, 'fit to split the ears of groundlings.' He asked if it had a name, and I said 'Indianapolis.'
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I never wear too much jewelry. I never wear a ton of pattern. Sometimes I'll go big, but it never feels right.
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Women love hairy men. Cavemen were the sexiest men in history.
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I'm not a list person.
