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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
-
As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
-
Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
-
I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
-
I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
-
My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
-
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.
-
I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
-
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.
-
Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
-
I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
-
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.
-
Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
-
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.
-
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
-
Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
-
Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.
-
What's important is that people realize that I can't be put into a box musically. I've studied all forms of music; I know probably more Jay-Z songs than the biggest Jay-Z fan. I've studied R. Kelly to the Isley Brothers to Stevie Wonder to Sting and Sade. You don't have one personality every day. You don't have one mood.
-
I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.
-
I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive.
-
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.
