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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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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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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I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley's Believe It or Not!
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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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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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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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I'm always criticised by other Somalis and Muslims for what I'm doing as a model and married to a white man and all that.
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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.
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The greatest enemies of success and happiness are negative emotions of all kinds.
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My whole goal is to keep my spirit intact. If that doesn't happen, none of this is worth it.
