Jewel Kilcher (Jewel) Quotes
It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more.
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You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.
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There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
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Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.
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I have never broken a contract in my career.
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I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.
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I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.
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One of the writers I most admire is Hilary Mantel because in the middle of her career, she just changed paths entirely and became just a totally different novelist.
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So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.
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I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.
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I'm such a relationship guy. I really am.
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This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal that they have obviously is important. They're a very powerful country.
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I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.
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I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
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If I want to make the first move, I want to go after something in my life, I should be able to do that without shame, guilt, or blame.
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You can say anything you want to say about me. But don't you dare address overweight people with terrible names and ugly remarks. That is what upsets me.
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If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.
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Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean depths, many people believed the seas were bottomless - the watery equivalent of infinite outer space.
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The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice of lending money at interest while the owner passes a life of idleness.
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It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more.
