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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Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
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I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March.
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No, the United States does not target civilians.
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Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it.
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Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.
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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.
