Joan Jett Quotes
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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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The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, 'What a dust do I raise!'
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Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?
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It's a weird thing. Rick Springfield wrote 'Jessie's Girl,' and he probably gets sick of talking about 'Jessie's Girl.' The thing is, I didn't write 'Blurred Lines.' I didn't direct the music video. I'm really happy for the success, but it is kind of a funny thing to follow me around.
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I get accused of having a haughty smugness. I have a lopsided mouth. I can't help it. I was born with it. It looks as if I am smirking. I have had my publicist tell me, 'Don't do that smile on the red carpet.' I'm, like, 'That's my smile.'
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Environments work us over and remake us. It is man who is the content of and the message of the media, which are extensions of himself. Electronic man must know the effects of the world he has made above all things. (p. 90)
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I'm not a list person.
