Janis Joplin
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RICHIE HAVENS CARINE ROITFELD My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York... LYNN COLLINS WILLIE NELSON PATTI SMITH TAYLOR KITSCH I was with Tina Turner when she first saw Janis Joplin, and she said to Janis, 'Honey, you can&#... MICHAEL WADLEIGH GARY SHEFFIELD My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Se... PAUL KANE STEVIE NICKS JEFF DUNHAM JESSICA BIEL BILLY CRUDUP AUGUST WILSON Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don&... LEANN RIMES ELMORE LEONARD If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you... RANDY NEWMAN I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind o... ALICIA WITT CARROLL SHELBY NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON My older brother, Jake, and I had a bohemian childhood. My parents are deeply unconventional people ... RACHEL KUSHNER I didn't do plays at school, because I didn't have the confidence. At 14, I was at boarding ... JOSEPH MAWLE I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix. EDDIE MONEY Don't get married until you're certain that you're marrying the right girl. How did I kn... BRIAN WILSON Unlike Texas Rangers, we actors don't have a stop date, so I don't know about retiring. Some... JEFF BRIDGES DEMETRI MARTIN ABRAHAM MASLOW I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners ... TAMSIN GREIG F. MURRAY ABRAHAM I'm a good person. I don't wish hateful things on people. I don't hate anybody. I know t... CURT SCHILLING I have way too shady a background to get into politics. I was a crazy kid - I was in bands, and I do... MICHAEL JOSEPH KELLY My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My F... DAVID KRUMHOLTZ I definitely feel sorry more people don't get to see my films. They aren't inaccessible, and... ANDREA ARNOLD JEFF DUNHAM Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo... WENDY DAVIS I got a lot of flak; in Texas, football is not only the social thing you must do, but you do it also... POWERS BOOTHE ZAHA HADID KENDALL JENNER PAUL FARMER I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a ... ROY BLOUNT, JR. JACK MCBRAYER I've never seen a low point. I like to believe that they don't exist. SHREYA GHOSHAL EMMITT SMITH DAVID BAILEY ROB MCCLURE JOHN LE CARRE JIMMY DEAN GABE NEWELL DAVE GROHL I had no idea what I was gonna do after I got my degree in philosophy in 1940. But what I did know w... GRACE LEE BOGGS ALANA STEWART I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won. BARBARA CASTLE I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I hea... DUANE CHAPMAN TRINNY WOODALL GAIL COLLINS I was an exchange student for a summer, and most of that summer was in Ukraine. I used to say 't... LOUIE GOHMERT KATHLEEN HANNA ADAM CAROLLA Here in California, a lot of people are just kinda rude, and they're really impatient, especiall... CAYDEN BOYD I never went to a university, and I am proud to say so because I don't think I have done too bad... FOLORUNSHO ALAKIJA JULIA CHILD JOHN LE CARRE You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even ... JOYCELYN ELDERS NINA DOBREV PENN JILLETTE ELISHA CUTHBERT SHANNON LUCID DWYANE WADE I'd seen so many people become stagnant in New Jersey - I had this fear I'd just stay there.... FRANKIE VALLI TAYLOR KITSCH I think (Texas) is the best all around team we have played. We have seen some good teams in the four... RICKEY BUSTLE JESSICA BIEL J. K. SIMMONS In 2011, I was in Hollywood peddling 'Sicario' to constant and resounding 'no's. Tex... TAYLOR SHERIDAN In my head, I think I'd make a perfect spy, but in reality, I don't think I'd fare very ... MATTHEW RHYS JANIS JOPLIN What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta... ROBERT DUVALL PARKER POSEY CAROLYN KIZER ABRAHAM LINCOLN ELODIE YUNG I don't think anybody ever thought about the CIA meddling in internal affairs. The shock of the ... JOHN SHERMAN COOPER For the few people who stayed (in Port Arthur), they could lose their lives. That's a very real poss... CARL GRIFFITH JOHN MADDEN JOHN MCENROE I'm not a very good financing person. I don't even know how much money I have in my bank acc... MARJANE SATRAPI
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LAURA JOPLIN I think that there's a strong crossover in that Janis, studying the visual arts, was learning how to... LAURA JOPLIN Anglo-Saxon America dealt with the emotional aspects of life by hiding them, ignoring them, or defin... LAURA JOPLIN The younger Janis was a painter, a drawer. She was a very serious art student for a number of years.... LAURA JOPLIN [One suspects there's a little projection going on in that passage, for the author does come across ... LAURA JOPLIN It was especially important that someone who has been subjected to such an incredible amount of inte... LAURA JOPLIN The biography was a personal quest to understand Janis and to sort what was real from stories that w... LAURA JOPLIN We need a more productive inside game and to get more shots out of our post players. We have to find... STAN JOPLIN Were they Socialists? SCOTT JOPLIN Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there. JANIS IAN There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their ... JANIS KARPINSKI I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed. JANIS KARPINSKI I started 'Society's Child' on a bus in East Orange as I was going home from school. I s... JANIS IAN So remember those who win the gameJANIS IAN Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that h... JANIS KARPINSKI The mission statement was ordered, and it sent the 800th MP Brigade, effective the first of July, up... JANIS KARPINSKI The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire ba... JANIS KARPINSKI The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may... JANIS IAN It's all about incentives. It's a legislative thing because the legislators determine how much incen... JANIS BURKLUND Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked. JANIS IAN I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd li... JANIS IAN Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would ce... JANIS IAN After they killed Uday and Qusay, the focus centered on Saddam: Find him, kill him, capture him, wha... JANIS KARPINSKI Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained ... JANIS IAN I was ordered not to go out to Abu Ghraib after dark early on, because Abu Ghraib was extremely dang... JANIS KARPINSKI If they conducted a raid in this room, you'd all be policed up. They'd take all of you to Ab... JANIS KARPINSKI In November, they transferred control of Abu Ghraib to the military intelligence command completely;... JANIS KARPINSKI The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value w... JANIS KARPINSKI A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me. JANIS IAN Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide... JANIS KARPINSKI The war was declared over - the end of major combat operations - in May 2003. Release procedures got... JANIS KARPINSKI That policy was abandoned very quickly, and the military police were tagged with the responsibility ... JANIS KARPINSKI Military intelligence interrogators, however, their goal is to get information, to save lives, to st... JANIS KARPINSKI [While accepting her] share of the responsibility ... were not the work of a few wayward soldiers an... JANIS KARPINSKI They can do whatever they want. They can make it appear anything they want, ... I will not be silenc... JANIS KARPINSKI How could (the military) hold me accountable when I had no direct access? ... How come they didn't h... JANIS KARPINSKI Thankfully we don't have any report but that might be as simple as soldiers being told what they can... JANIS KARPINSKI When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much m... JANIS IAN Fear breeds fear. BYRON JANIS I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having... JANIS IAN I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was goi... JANIS IAN Iraq was a huge country, and when you have people largely saying now, 'He may have been a dictator, ... JANIS KARPINSKI You take a request down - literally, you take a request to the Finance Office. If the Pay Officer re... JANIS KARPINSKI There was no coordination with me or Colonel Pappas. There was no discussion about chain of command. JANIS KARPINSKI The most pronounced difference was when Miller came to visit. He came right after Rumsfeld's visit .... JANIS KARPINSKI We're never going to know the truth until they do an independent commission or look into this indepe... JANIS KARPINSKI [The first time Karpinski got any clarification about the photographs was January 23, 2004. The crim... JANIS KARPINSKI [Karpinski tried to get information, but] nobody knew anything, nobody - at least, that's what they ... JANIS KARPINSKI was told by Colonel Warren, the JAG officer for General Sanchez, that they weren't assigned to me, t... JANIS KARPINSKI We haven't dealt very effectively with those photographs or what they indicated, JANIS KARPINSKI I've never spoken to any of them, JANIS KARPINSKI living conditions now are better in prison than at home. At one point we were concerned that they wo... JANIS KARPINSKI Look how they've tormented me, what they've taken away from me, JANIS KARPINSKI We need to fix this. It hasn't been done yet because there's still a reluctance to admit tha... JANIS KARPINSKI ..."we didn't make it around the world, but we were able to wrap the world around us. JANIS COUVREUX I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with ... JANIS IAN I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail ... JANIS IAN This is a problem that's more prominent now than in the past, ... Get Serious about Getting Married:... JANIS SPINDEL It's not just about 'here's a phone number, get married.' I facilitate the date, I'm a relationship ... JANIS SPINDEL dooms celebrity marriages before they can really start. JANIS SPINDEL At the end of the day, the key to true love is chemistry, and that means attraction, shared values, ... JANIS SPINDEL The decline in the portfolio reflects diminished investment opportunities amidst continued strong co... JANIS SMITH The portfolio results for January really just reflect diminished investment opportunities, along wit... JANIS SMITH We're hoping that motivation will carry over into a regular school. Our goal is to help these studen... JANIS SLATTERY This stinks. Why is my mom is making me come to school on Saturday? JANIS SLATTERY We have kids who are disgruntled at school. At Flight School, these kids are really digging learning... JANIS SLATTERY For his very first slalom, he improved his time by 13 seconds, and that's pretty good. It was a diff... JANIS SERRANO Definitely, snowboarding has taken some skiers. We used to have 30 or 40 skiers, but we've just watc... JANIS SERRANO We're in a rebuilding process, we're doing fine for where we're at. We're just trying to improve on ... JANIS SERRANO Haley is experienced and talented. You would never guess that she's just a third-year skier. She sta... JANIS SERRANO She had a really good race. This was her second top-10 finish, so it looks like she's on her way to ... JANIS SERRANO Each dollar a visitor spends doubles in value as it spreads through the community. The attractions a... JANIS SCHMEES Far beyond the economic impact is being able to show off our city to political leaders. It's a coup ... JANIS SCHMEES They've been looking for an opportunity to come back, but we haven't had the Convention Center avail... JANIS SCHMEES At the Harvard meet, I beat the one-meter champion my freshman year. It's really hard to believe. JANIS SCANLON As soon as Julie stepped in, I knew that I would have to step up my diving. Julie works really well ... JANIS SCANLON I wasn't even expecting it. It was one of the best meets of the season so far. Making NCAA Zones def... JANIS SCANLON It happened on my very first dive at the meet. With the gainer two-and-a-half, you're supposed to ju... JANIS SCANLON It's hard to play competitively in Canada and still be a full-time student, so when I heard from IU,... JANIS PARDY It has allowed me to experiment with different styles of play to come up with the most successful on... JANIS PARDY We have great team chemistry and I think a lot of our success can be attributed to how well we all g... JANIS PARDY We have all played together for so long. We have a lot of chemistry. We know how each other plays an... JANIS PARDY We're a basic, general dental office that provides all phases of dentistry with the exception of ort... JANIS MORIARTY We've received lots of new patients since we moved. There's great visibility here that we didn't hav... JANIS MORIARTY In the past, people only went to the dentist when they had a problem, which was a constant horror sh... JANIS MORIARTY Certainly I would be concerned but I would be equally concerned... that the pictures had not been re... JANIS KARPINSKI The most pronounced difference was when Miller came to visit. He came right after Rumsfeld's visit .... JANIS KARPINSKI It's easy in a big district to rarely see or know one another. This event brings the three buildings... JANIS HYLAND He had an effective removal order against him, he had a legal deportation order against him, there w... JANIS FERGUSSON We were of the opinion that he was a danger to the public and that he should not be allowed to remai... JANIS FERGUSSON They will be contacted. Their case will be dealt with. JANIS FERGUSSON You couldn't really see the drivers. Here, you can see them. They're right there (close to the fence... JANIS FARRELL We got the car as soon as we saw it. JANIS FARRELL We know T-shirts and hat sales aren't going to generate enough money to bring filming of 'Dallas' to... JANIS BURKLUND The competition is getting more aggressive. If we don't do something, we're going to get left in the... JANIS BURKLUND Both Florida and Texas are going to have to increase the incentives to get more movies. Right now, L... JANIS BURKLUND Florida's nice, but let's get real. The show was called 'Dallas,' right? It took place in Dallas, ri... JANIS BURKLUND We're just getting it started, and I don't know how successful it will be. But we're going to have t... JANIS BURKLUND It's not that they won't shoot here at all. They just might not shoot much here, and that would be h... JANIS BURKLUND This particular movie there's more at stake then just money. Of course, there's the money to our eco... JANIS BURKLUND I think all of us thought that by the '70s, at the latest the '80s, all the world's prob... JANIS IAN Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied. JANIS IAN I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted. JANIS IAN At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that ju... JANIS IAN Research about the prevention of obesity should consider infancy, as well as childhood. DR JANIS BAIRD What is needed are in-depth studies to try to understand better the pattern of growth in infancy and... DR JANIS BAIRD There were very consistent findings in all of the studies we looked at. DR JANIS BAIRD The entrance into the family of an outside professional with legal authority is always a crisis-ridd... JANIS TYLER JOHNSON Women need total life support services for the mother as she and the family move through the crisis ... JANIS TYLER JOHNSON
I don't think I sound like Janis Joplin. I'm a woman with a raspy voice. 
People hear a powerful female singer in a rock and roll band, and they say, 'Janis Joplin.' ... 
I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just... 
I don't know that we do. I had thought ours worked well, but I had never examined it too closely... 
I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest. 
You're never going to see the fat Elvis in me. People I admired like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix ... 
Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability t... 
I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control. 
In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great v... 
And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the pla... 
Black players had an issue with Joe Torre. They weren't treated like everybody else. Even I got ... 
I didn't want to look like anyone else - like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That's why I neve... 
I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. T... 
I was skeptical about doing Texas Chainsaw at first because it's such a cult classic. I'd se... 
I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one. 
I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch ... 
I don't want to write any more screenplays, I'll tell you that right now. It's a waste o... 
I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplan... 
I was an aspiring astrophysicist, and that's how I defined myself, not by my skin color. People ... 
I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Ji... 
If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and just... 
I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of th... 
Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women d... 
I had just started ninth grade when I got my acne. And I had braces. I wouldn't look people in t... 
I've been working in Haiti 28 years - I thought I'd sort of seen it... I've gone through... 
I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about... 
I don't have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don't have to... 
In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make y... 
I had seen 'Avenue Q' off-Broadway back in 2003 and fell in love with it. I just thought it ... 
I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tensio... 
I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's lik... 
When I worked at Microsoft, I got to go and visit a bunch of different companies. Probably a hundred... 
When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a ... 
I don't worry about gaining weight. I'm fortunate in that I've never had to worry about ... 
I'd never have a facelift, as I have never seen one that looks good. 
The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of politica... 
I don't want to be a historical action figure or treated like I'm dead. Like one of those pe... 
I don't think I've ever seen pie advertised. That's how you know it's good. They adv... 
When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a r... 
Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a... 
I don't like any kind of negativity. I try to be good to everyone, whether it's a love, a fr... 
To drive a car in rural America is freedom. Before I had a car, I'd never seen a rock and roll s... 
I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. It got me as I was coming out of the shower. I'd never s... 
I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to gradu... 
You know, 10 years ago I never thought I'd be in this position. It's a dream and I don't... 
I definitely had dolls when I was a kid. I don't remember being very thorough with them and maki... 
I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other... 
...to be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's w... 
My aunt in Texas, when she did the hazing things, they had girls swallow oysters. They'd wrap an... 
I tell people I never got to hear Dylan Thomas read because my husband wouldn't let me, because ... 
I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never ... 
I would love to appear in 'The Defenders.' I don't know - because hopefully she'll m... 
I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm... 
When I came on the tour, I thought, 'Why don't they treat tennis players the same way they l... 
I'm one of those regular weird people. 
Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessa...