Jewel Kilcher (Jewel) Quotes
Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.
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Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.
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I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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I had a dog for 20 years and her name was 'Penny,' so I have a penny necklace.
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Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit.
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I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country - Irish music - had a particular resonance.
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Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.
