Joan Jett Quotes

We all make judgments on people, but some are much more brutal than others. It's easy to say, 'Ya know, I'm not crazy about what she's wearing,' but you don't have to be nasty about it, and you don't have to be public about it.

Joan Jett

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• We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Book
  • True

• I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.

  

  Raekwon
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Life
  • Children
  • Yourself

• Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Nature
  • Law
  • First

• We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Him
  • Worth
  • Worth It

• A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.

  

  Dan Gelber
  • School
  • True
  • Strong

• I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • Home
  • Together

• When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Good
  • Business
  • Team

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Team
  • Language
  • Brother

• I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Will
  • Breath
  • Last

• In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Great
  • War
  • Together

• Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Sometimes
  • Very
  • Embarrassed

• Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

  

  Iris Chang
  • You
  • Yourself
  • First

• New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Age
  • Past
  • Culture

• The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.

  

  Victor Francis Hess
  • May
  • Strong
  • Energy

• There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • New

• When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Think
  • Tree
  • Upset

• I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Book
  • Science
  • Chance

• Honestly, I'm willing to experiment with far more variety in roles than I'm given. But ultimately, it's the producer's decision. But, I've done a variety of roles - the evil don, the evil husband... I've done villainous roles, supporting roles, etc.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Done
  • Evil
  • Decision

• For me personally, I was just worried that transitioning from a podcast, which is a very intimate sort of experience - people tell me they listen to my podcast while they're at the gym or on road trips, so you're in someone's ear - to being on television - that's a lot of space to fill.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • People
  • Experience
  • Space

• I think a lot of singers are shy people. I suppose singing on stage is not like talking; you are not as exposed.

  

  Alison Goldfrapp
  • People
  • Singing

• You need to marry someone that is your soul mate, that you're obsessed with, and never ignore that.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • Soul
  • Ignore

• We all make judgments on people, but some are much more brutal than others. It's easy to say, 'Ya know, I'm not crazy about what she's wearing,' but you don't have to be nasty about it, and you don't have to be public about it.

  

  Joan Jett
  • People
  • She
  • Crazy