Joan Jett Quotes
People like to tear you down. People are always going to take shots. You've just got to go for it.
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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All I really want to do is things I haven't done. 'I'm gonna put a paper bag on my head and be on the cover of 'Billboard,' see what I can get away with - if they'll let me.' And they let me. And I am literally giggling inside for, like, a month that I got away with it.
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When Mindy Kaling asks, I try my best to say yes.
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There are no awards in Hollywood for being an idiot.
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I think the sad fact is, there's a long history in this country at looking at African-American as subhuman. And I think that's reflected in the fact that, when we have problems that really are problems of employment, that are really problems of mental health, that are really problems of drugs, our answer is the police.
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We tried our best for the longest time to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the matter, and at each step, we were thwarted by those that said, No, we will not turn the boy over to his father.
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People like to tear you down. People are always going to take shots. You've just got to go for it.
