Joan Jett Quotes
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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I didn't grow up listening to The Smiths, but now I am a fan. I love his music and listened to so much of it for the film. It's not a regular biopic; they picked a part of his life that people don't really know about. You learn what informs his lyrics.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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You hear a few people saying that, you know, maybe some of the past male players like to watch me play or whatever else, just because I play a bit differently and maybe they can relate to it a bit more with a bigger forehand rather than a backhand, good serve and whatnot.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.
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I find the business world hard.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.
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It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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A key component of social media is 'following' - and no one is there to see what you have to say on Instagram or Twitter if they aren't motivated to follow you.
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These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.
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Calvin and Hobbes are the only two characters from my childhood reading that I return to with any regularity, and they have grown with me, yielding newer and deeper meaning.
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If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy.
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We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.
