Janis Ian Quotes

Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.

Janis Ian

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MusicTimeHumbleSongThinking

Work begets work. Just work. If you work, people will find out about you and want to work with you if you're good. So work anywhere you can. That's why I've changed my mind about these theatres where people work for free or have to pay money. I think it's kind of terrible that they feel they have to, but you know what? They're working.

John Carroll Lynch

WorkGoodMoneyPeopleMindThink

When you make a stance, sometimes there are consequences.

Andre Ward

YouConsequencesSometimesStance

I didn't go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest.

Andrew Lansley

PoliticsWinGoPopularityBecause

I think the answer of course is that space and time are not these hard external objects. Again we're, scientists have been building from one side of nature (physics) without considering the other side (life in consciousness). Neither side exists without the other. They cannot be divorced from one another or else there is no reality.

Robert Lanza

LifeNatureTimeSpaceBuilding

More than ever, Romania now needs to see that a force exists that puts an end to Ponta and Antonescu's abuses and coup d'etat. This force is none other than the Romanian people.

Traian Basescu

PeopleEndNowMoreSeeForce

I love white T-shirts as much as I love black. I often wear total black. It's my favourite.

Chiara Ferragni

LoveBlackWhiteWearT-ShirtsMuch

As a general rule, if you have a product that doesn't get the job done that a customer is needing to get done, then often you have to offer it for zero. Because if you ask for money for it - because if it doesn't do the job well, they won't pay for it.

Clayton M. Christensen

MoneyJobCustomerYouDonePay

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don't think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

Alice Munro

GoodJobWritingThinkLearnSee

Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are rooted in the future or the present tense as much as in the past. And home, we know, is not just the place where you happen to be born. It's the place where you become yourself.

Pico Iyer

HomeFuturePastYourselfPresent

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.

Pierre Charron

GoodWisdomBestFoundationLearn

There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.

Norman Foster

WorkNatureScienceArtDiscipline

I don't ever blink, honestly.

Ridley Scott

BlinkEverHonestly

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