Joan Jett Quotes
When you're onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you're all on the same level, it's the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it's like pure love.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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So many of the recipes that I come up with have a story. I'm a blogger. It flowed very naturally out of me, but I also knew this was a way to set my recipes apart. A, they are always using interesting ingredients but B, there is always a story behind it.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
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I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.
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All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
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I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life.
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I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
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In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.
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To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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'How can slaves be sent by Allah? You all have hairless faces, the mark of the bondman.'
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You always have to know that you are going to leave everything on the pitch, every drop of sweat, to help the team win the game.
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When you're onstage and the audience is smiling and singing and bopping along and you're all on the same level, it's the best feeling in the world. It may sound dumb and corny to say it, but it's like pure love.
