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I've been obsessed with stopping people from blowing each other's brains out since I was ten.
Joan Baez
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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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I think the question that nobody wanted to deal with is the question they're posing: did my kid die in vain? Because the answer is too awful.
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Action is the antidote to despair.
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Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows, our brains are turning into jello.
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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
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Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.
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In other words, it is what I do in the world that matters. When I traveled for three months in the Mideast, the places I wanted to go back to were Turkey and the Gaza Strip. It has to do with what Gandhi said: he found God in the eyes of the poor. Those are the places which were so moving that they were just unbearable.
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