Joan Jett Quotes
Only because The Runaways were my baby and there's no reason to get it back together except to totally have fun. If that's not the goal, then I don't want to do it.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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I started the business as a computer consulting business, which, coupled to my nickname, Scorpion, formed the full name Scorpion Computer Services.
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I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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The way that people have gotten on board with me is the most encouraging thing in the world, but it's all very connected to the 14 years I've been on tour with Steel Train, even my band before that, Outline, and then fun. and now Bleachers.
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Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.
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For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.
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When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.
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If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
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I'm not well versed on the verbiage of the internet.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.
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The power of radio is not that it speaks to millions, but that it speaks intimately and privately to each one of those millions.
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...people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.
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I tell my staff, we're riding a tour bus around, and we're going to stop and look at some weird stuff - but we're taking our viewers around safely. They're just looking out the window at it. I'm trying to create a sense of comfort for my center audience.
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I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.
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Only because The Runaways were my baby and there's no reason to get it back together except to totally have fun. If that's not the goal, then I don't want to do it.
