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My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.

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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the far left and a deeper sense of rage and sorrow over the suffering they continue to produce all over the world.
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Action is the antidote to despair.
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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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If you don't have music, you have silence. There is power in both.
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We both know what memories can bring / They bring diamonds and rust.
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I was trying to disturb the war.
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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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I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.
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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 wasn't popular in school, I was Mexican, I was all these inappropriate things. I started playing the ukulele and taking it to school, and I realized people liked listening to it. I would play it to comfort myself at home, and I'd play rhythm and blues songs that had four chords. That's how it started.
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As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.
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We're not really pacifists, we're nonviolent soldiers.
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The longer you practice nonviolence and the meditative qualities of it that you will need, the more likely you are to do something intelligent in any situation.
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We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.
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Diamonds & Rust started off as another song. Then the words started to morph. When you write a song that deep, the words come from some place else. But when the songs stop coming, it would be so contrived to try and force it. Since then I've just been doing other people's music.
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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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Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.
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I don't think of myself as a symbol of the sixties, but I do think of myself as a symbol of following through on your beliefs.
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If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.
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