Joan Jett Quotes
I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.
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Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.
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I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
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The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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You change the world by being yourself.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Let people have an education and you can't stop them.
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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At a person-to-person level, I think that there's always something to be said for having some empathy for the folks who really, really disagree with you about a given topic.
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Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.
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People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.
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I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it.
