Joan Jett Quotes
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After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
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We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I'm uncomfortable with the limelight. I'm not the type to go to the places where I know I'll be seen. I'd rather keep a low profile.
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Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.
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In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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I have a band that I started with a buddy of mine, a Vietnam veteran pal named Kimo Williams from Chicago.
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I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.
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You will have no test of faith that will not fit you to be a blessing if you are obedient to the Lord. I never had a trial but when I got out of the deep river I found some poor pilgrim on the bank that I was able to help by that very experience.
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Children who reach the age of eighteen with their entire skills set composed on Nintendo and eating Doritos have been neglected. Their parents neglected to give them the character traits necessary to live successfully.
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Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.
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I don't look good in beige.
