"It seems to be part of the human……" — Janis Ian
"It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one."
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45 Quotes by Janis Ian
Janis Ian has 45 quotes on this site.
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Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.
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I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as…
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I love seeing teachers outside of school. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs.
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Did you have an awesome time? Did you drink awesome shooters, listen to awesome music, and then just sit around…
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Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied.
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Wish I'd written Tikkun Olam – a Weavers or Peter Paul & Mary hit!
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Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.
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Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me.
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Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.
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Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.
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I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one…
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I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.
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More Condition Quotes
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
— Hannah Arendt
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
— Aristotle
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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the…
— Margaret Atwood
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I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I…
— Kevin Bacon
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the…
— Roland Barthes
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
— Bruce Barton
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It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary.…
— Saint Basil
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The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
— Georges Bataille
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
— Joseph Addison
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When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most…
— Alfred Adler
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