Quote by Jon Landau
To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and

To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours. – Jon Landau

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It didnt matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies. – Jon Landau

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movies
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On the surface, rock and roll changes at an amazing pace. The influence of a figure like the Maharishi can appear and disappear in a matter of months. Talk about old fashioned rock and roll finds itself dead before it begins. – Jon Landau

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amazing
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So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are. – Floyd Abrams

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Freedom

Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States. – Mitt Romney

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Freedom

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny democracy, not dictatorship the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police. – Tony Blair

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Freedom

But there is a corollary to freedom and thats personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it. – Esther Dyson

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History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses. – Charles Angoff

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[T]he common thread that binds nearly all animal species seems to be that males are willing to abandon all sense and decorum, even to risk their lives, in the frantic quest for sex. – Randy Thornhill and Craig T. Palmer

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Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape. – Antonin Artaud

Its the best marriage of songs and production. But I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova. – Joey Santiago

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Marriage