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Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
Joan Baez
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Joan Baez
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: January 9
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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 was trying to disturb the war.
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As long as we keep searching, the answers come.
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Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
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