"I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war."

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Source : Pop Chronicles interview, 1967.

Joan Baez

#War Quotes #Jail Quotes #Trying Quotes

“how could advice be successful? If it turns out right, the adviser is ignored and the advisee takes all the credit. If it proves mistaken, the adviser receives all the blame.”
“A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.”

Source : Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2008.
“I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing.”
“One of the things the police officers told us in the first minutes of being with them is that the way that they cope with their job is by using a lot of inappropriate humour. It's really a lovely opportunity to try to challenge our ideas of what it is to deal with complex issues, and that they're not always dower. Having that kind of humour along with the pathos for what people are going through is a really nice challenge.”

Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com
“Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.”

Source : "Meditation at Lagunitas" l. 24 (1979)
“There was nothing wrong with the performance, apart from throwing away the game.”
“Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness”
“Your prosperity will only grow as fast as you do.”

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