Jewel Kilcher (Jewel) Quotes

I developed a loyal following. No one knew I was homeless.

Jewel Kilcher

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• With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Peace
  • Play
  • Development

• Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Man
  • Years
  • Errors

• I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Sweet

• I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Love
  • Interesting

• With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Fight
  • Knew
  • Won

• There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

  

  Walter Salles
  • America
  • Present
  • Latin

• I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Tea
  • Politician
  • Cup

• Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Men
  • Female
  • Manipulate

• It's important to remember that innovators in business don't always get a platform.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Important
  • Business
  • Remember

• This theatre is your theatre. You are responsible for its creation and its progress.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Progress
  • Theatre

• Liars ought to have good memories.

  

  Algernon Sidney
  • Good
  • Memories

• Food is important for me, but as a restaurant group, to expand, you know, we have to look where the best market are - where the best markets are.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Important
  • Food

• I'm a painfully slow reader. And to this day, I mean, I love reading, and I'm very careful - very selective about what I read because I don't read very fast and, therefore, not a great deal.

  

  Philip Schultz
  • Great
  • Reading

• To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Hate

• There was a time I thought about being a professional guide. I'm a big outdoorsman, but the acting thing has always been there - always something I wanted to do.

  

  Matt Long
  • Time
  • Professional

• Some people have a persona that they bring, and I can't do that. It's just me that you get, I'm afraid.

  

  Neve McIntosh
  • People

• I think that a band that cannot limit themselves to one genre and can kind of do a lot of different things.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Different
  • Band

• I used to watch the Broadway 'Les Miz' and study it.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Study

• My worst hairstyle was a bowl cut parted down the middle. It was the '90s. It was what you did. I had that from 4th grade until freshman year in high school. I'm glad the pictures exist. I had great hair back then.

  

  Chris Evans
  • Great
  • School
  • High

• My problem is I can think whatever I think—girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah — but I still feel the way I feel. Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.

  

  E. Lockhart
  • Life
  • Power
  • Girl

• A homeless guy came up to me on the street, said he hadn't eaten in four days. I told him, "Man, I wish I had your willpower.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Wish

• Even though I have Twitter, I only use it to say, 'Oh, this is coming out.' I would never voice anything about me, really.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Me
  • Never
  • Voice

• When I address admitted students each spring, I ask them to consider two questions: Why would Harvard be the right place for the person I am? Why would it be the right place for the person that I want to become? These questions, in my mind, get at the heart of any admissions process.

  

  Drew Gilpin Faust
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Why

• I developed a loyal following. No one knew I was homeless.

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Homeless