Joan Jett Quotes

I'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?

Joan Jett

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Reader, persons who have never witnessed a hurricane, such as not unfrequently desolates the sultry climates of the south, can scarcely form an idea of their terrific grandeur. One would think that, not content with laying waste all on land, it must needs sweep the waters of the shallows quite dry to quench its thirst.

John James Audubon

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It was a great thing for the Blues boys to do in terms of shaving their hair off for me. The whole squad did it. At first I thought it was only going to be a handful of boys, but fair play, they all did it, and a few of the coaches as well.

Matthew Rees

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For the surf idol Duke Kahanamoku portrait, which I created for the Surfrider Foundation, I took a photo from a book cover and abstracted the photo image into a drawing. This drawing was laminated onto a surfboard and auctioned to a buyer.

John Van Hamersveld

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My parents always instilled knowing that your beautiful, that your fearfully and wonderfully made, and that you know who you are.

Amber Riley

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Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to enter the sacred space, genuflecting to reliquaries and ostentatoria that make something splendid of our most secret desires and agonies.

Rob Sheffield

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Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

Rollo May

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There are some films that really break the mold, and some films that don't. I've been looking for films that break the mold a bit.

Josh Hartnett

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Every bit of our lives revolves around how we get from one place to another and how long it's going to take to get there and what time of day you have to leave to do it.

Donna Edwards

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The idea we would create some kind of religious test for entry into the country is absolutely wrong.

Cory Gardner

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I remember sneaking a look at films like 'D.C. Cab' and 'Doctor Detroit' when my parents weren't watching. 'One Crazy Summer' with John Cusack was one of my favorites.

Bobby Moynihan

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When I started out, it was around the whole 9/11 - Islamophobia was just sort of hitting a second wind. Obviously that informed a lot of my humor, and it influenced a lot of what I was talking about on stage because it was extremely relevant at the time.

Riaad Moosa

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I started creative writing classes at Aberdeen Central Library, and the writer-in-residence there, Todd McEwen, encouraged me a great deal. He showed my stories to his editor, and I thought that was just what happened to everyone who took his classes!

Leila Aboulela

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