Janis Ian Quotes

I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish and all of my friends were black and Baptist because they listen to the coolest music. We were all listening to Ray Charles and what was then called race music.

Janis Ian

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Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new, too - started printing essays about them.

Jill Lepore

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The point of launching a maternity line, for me, was to do something different.

Jessica Simpson

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I still spend my time feeling sorry for myself and making serious mistakes.

Joe Thomas

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To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

Roger Ascham

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I'm in a constant conflict about having to make a movie for the big and the small screen at the same time, stylistically. So I just basically make it for the large screen.

Robert Zemeckis

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I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.

Roz Savage

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Personally, I'm very classic. If I'm going to wear a suit, it's going to be classic, black, and fit very well. There's nothing like it.

Michael Pitt

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There is a term called political correctness, and I consider it to be a euphemism for political cowardice.

Milos Zeman

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There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Milton Friedman

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You're not allowed to mess up in theater, and if you do, it is going to be embarrassing. But in film, if you make a mistake you just do it over again. You can just do another take.

Jared Gilman

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When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

Don Miguel Ruiz

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I'm always inspired to push forward.

Dianne Reeves

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