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My bucket list is pretty much checked off. But oh, we should play in space! Let's do that. We'll play in space, up on a satellite somewhere. — Patrick Stump

I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted. — Janis Ian

I mean, I would love to have the career Joan Baez is having in Europe right now, but God knows I don't begrudge her that career. — Janis Ian

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things. — Janis Ian

Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied. — Janis Ian

Phantoms do not wear round hats. — Victor Hugo

Though Journeys Be Common, Our Paths Remain A Silent Possesion. — W. Ivan Wright

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me. — Janis Ian

Did you have an awesome time? Did you drink awesome shooters, listen to awesome music, and then just sit around and soak up each others awesomeness? — Janis Ian

A friend of mine once told me 'For people like us, the meaning is the search for the meaning. — Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me. — Janis Ian

Do what is right, and do it now. — Atul Gawande

Like so many champions of justice, she possessed empathy in the abstract, but sometimes fell short when confronted with the flesh-and-blood reality. — Erik Valeur

Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there. — Janis Ian

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to. — Janis Ian

That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling. — Janis Ian

Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that. — Haruki Murakami

The more storage you have, the more stuff you accumulate. — Alexis Stewart

My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well. — Janis Ian

When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record. — Janis Ian

There's at least one good thing about TV," he said after a while. "You can shut it off whenever you like. And nobody complains. — Haruki Murakami

Truth is not the enemy and whatever does not kill us, sets us free. — Janis Ian

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society. — Janis Ian

Every moment of our life belongs to the present only for a moment; then it belongs for ever to the past. — Arthur Schopenhauer

It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers. — Janis Ian

I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking. — Janis Ian

Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me. — Janis Ian

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else. — Franz Grillparzer

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am. — Janis Ian

Trust your ability! — Itzhak Perlman

The city does not consist of this, but of relationships between the measurements of its space and the events of its past: — Italo Calvino

But the demonstration of the power of Jesus' name took place, not in the Temple, but outside the gate. God is on the move, not confined — N. T. Wright

Sometimes, questions are more hurtful than insults. — Mitch Albom

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about. — Janis Ian

I love seeing teachers outside of school. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs. — Janis Ian

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11. — Janis Ian

The money when you're having a hit is great, but money can be taken from you. What can't be taken from you is the talent and the effect your work has. — Janis Ian

Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone. — Janis Ian

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer. — 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. — Janis Ian

A prolonged unforgiveness is a prolonged destruction mindset — Sunday Adelaja