Jewel Kilcher (Jewel) Quotes
I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just what I've always liked - people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance.
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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
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Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.
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I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?
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Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
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I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
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I became a human jukebox, learning all these songs I'd always known, discovering the basics of what I do. The cathartic part was in the essential act of singing. When is it that the voice becomes an elixir? It's during flirting, courtship, sex. Music's all that.
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It's predominantly a male society, predominately a male culture, predominantly a male theatre, and predominantly male critics, but that's changing, definitely.
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The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
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Younger customers are the future, but older customers have the money. So you need both: one for the present, and the other for the future.
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I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just what I've always liked - people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance.
