Joan Jett Quotes
Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
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I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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If poverty and underdevelopment are primarily consequences of poor institutions, then by weakening those institutions or stunting their development, large aid flows do exactly the opposite of what they are intended to do.
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What you consistently speak with emotional intensity, you will experience, you will create, and you will become. The words that you speak with emotional conviction become the life you live - this is your heaven or this is your hell.
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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Aggressive, tough and defiant may describe me, but that leaves the impression I'm mean and I'm not. People expect me to have fangs.
