Joan Baez Quotes
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
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I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?
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Action is the antidote to despair.
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If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
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The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
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If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the…
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I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.
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Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
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My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.
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As long as we keep searching, the answers come.
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As long as one keeps searching, the answers will come.
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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
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Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them…
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It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words…
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Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow.
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I was writing "Diamonds and Rust' and it had nothing to do with what it turned out to be. I don't remember what it is,…
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Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while we'll lose our…
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I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war.
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I've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.
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I was trying to disturb the war.
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