Jewel Kilcher (Jewel) Quotes
You have a different crowd every night, so you should do a different show to suit them. I tailor the show to their mood.
Quotes to Explore
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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I think a person has to just be herself.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
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I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.
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My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.
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It is fun to explore these kick-butt characters.
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My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date. So what if I can speak firsthand about the Spanish flu, the advent of the automobile, world wars, cold wars, guerrilla wars, and Sputnik — that's all ancient history now. But what else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That's the reality of getting old, and I guess that's really the crux of the matter. I'm not ready to be old yet.
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Healthy forests and wetlands stand sentry against the dangers of climate change, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locking it away in plants, root systems and soil.
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My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.
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You have a different crowd every night, so you should do a different show to suit them. I tailor the show to their mood.
