Jewel Kilcher (Jewel) Quotes
There are a lot of things about fame that are not conducive to being curious. It's been important for me to cloister myself off.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
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What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.
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A melody is not merely something you can hum.
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The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
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Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.
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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
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Events are not a matter of chance.
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It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
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I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget, and it was the first time we had done it since man walked on the moon. We had a $5 trillion surplus and we cut taxes.
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People are very hungry for something new. I think they are interested in being called to be a part of something larger than the sort of small, petty, slash-and-burn politics that we have been seeing over the last several years.
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I work incredibly hard - just like every other person in business and work. And aside from the fact of, yes, I am the brother of someone very important, I am, at the end of the day, just James.
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There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are.
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There are a lot of things about fame that are not conducive to being curious. It's been important for me to cloister myself off.
