Jewel Kilcher (Jewel) Quotes
My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'
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You have to handle adversity well. There are roadblocks you will have to fight through.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
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Yep, my body is doing good and everything feels good and I'm ready.
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I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then you have to act. My pulpit is acting.
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Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
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My faith makes me willing to do things that may look like there's going to be a lot of physical difficulty. And you just go ahead and do it because you truly believe it's the right thing to do.
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My extravagance is my garden - it's the first thing I look at every morning when I wake up. It gives me so much pleasure.
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I don't know how to play evil.
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Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
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I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.
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A person who knows but a little will put on an air of knowledge. This is a matter of inexperience. When someone knows something well, it will not be seen in his manner.
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The beer was empty and our tongues were tiredAnd running out of things to say.She gave a kiss to me as I got outAnd I watched her drive away.Just for a moment I was back at schoolAnd felt that old familiar painAnd as I turned to make my way back homeThe snow turned into rain.
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Myth. Rape is a manifestation of male political and economic power. Fact. Any given black man is three times as likely to be reported a rapist as a white man. Do blacks suddenly have more political and economic power? Maybe rape does not derive from power, but rather from powerlessness.
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When I'm in a hectic crowd of people, I don't feel great. I'm looking over my shoulder. I feel exposed.
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Apple chief executive Tim Cook is such a respected figure that it's easy to overlook the basic problem with his argument about encryption: Cook is asserting that a private company and the interests of its customers should prevail over the public's interest as expressed by our courts.
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There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation of their true potential. Most people must live with varying degrees of the shame and fear of not being fully in control of themselves.
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The sky above us is something we have very little control of, and the space beyond is something we don't completely understand.
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My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.
