Joan Jett Quotes

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

Joan Jett

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WorldPlayRockUpRollGrew

I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish. A lot of lawyers or doctors who have names but absolutely no lives. You're going to get your three or four scenes; you're not going to be able to show what you can do.

Viola Davis

YouLawyersThreeNamesGoingGet

The bottom line is, Texas and its people are pretty much what most people mean when they use the broader term 'America.'

Joe R. Lansdale

PeopleTexasAmericaMeanLineMost

Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.

Joe Torre

BaseballNegativeStatisticsAlways

My mother was a very sweet soul and a beautiful person, but she had a lot of fear.

John Grant

FearMotherBeautifulSoulSweet

I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much.

Andrew Rannells

LivePeopleMeVillageWillAlways

I'll let the racket do the talking.

John McEnroe

SportsTalkingRacket

Not as many people watch 'Doctor Who' as watch the Super Bowl, obviously, but the tropes that attract nerds are no longer a secret cult. It's a much larger culture, in the specific sense.

John Hodgman

CulturePeopleDoctorSuper Bowl

I've worked with kids that are just horrendous, and it's mostly because of their parents.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

ParentsBecauseJustKidsHorrendous

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Rudyard Kipling

AloneTravelWhoHeFastestTravels

Our artists and writers should not be forced like soldiers to die on foreign soil or to return wounded and crawl famously into a hole.

Derek Walcott

DieSoilSoldiersReturnArtists

I want the white people to understand my people.

Chief Joseph

PeopleWhiteWantUnderstand

Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan.

Chen Shui-bian

ConfidenceGreatPeopleDemocracy

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