Jewel Kilcher (Jewel) Quotes

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

Jewel Kilcher

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• I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Anything you're interested in the world - whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop - they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Coffee

• Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • Always
  • Talking
  • Welcome

• 'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • American
  • Think
  • Proud

• I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Real

• It's important to have masculine energy around your child.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Important
  • Energy
  • Child

• Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Time
  • Change
  • Eyes

• Even if I tried to fill up the stadium in Ramat Gan, I don't think I could.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Up
  • Think
  • Stadium

• I don't want to live on past records.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Live
  • Want
  • Past

• I never played sports or got into the whole guy camaraderie of, like, 'I love you, man! Seniors forever!' So suddenly being in the military with these guys who were under these very heightened circumstances, isolated from their families, living this very kind of Greek lifestyle, it changed my life in a really big way.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Life
  • Way
  • Kind

• The world is full of opportunities - every day there's something new that you can do. For example, you could make dirty water potable. Why does anyone not have potable water? Because it's a problem that hasn't been solved yet, but it can be.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • World
  • Why
  • Day

• The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Man
  • Criticism
  • Conservative

• I belong on the stage. I love how the day's events, whatever you read in the newspapers or watch on the TV, are reflected in the performance and how it's received.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Stage
  • Performance
  • Events

• No one wants to read an apologetic book.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Book
  • Read
  • Apologetic

• I love being a part of the country-music community.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Country
  • Community

• I haven't been the best boyfriend or husband, and that means I don't get to spend every day with my daughter.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Day
  • Best
  • Husband

• I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Good
  • Think
  • Human

• Some people are selfish in all of their relationships. Those people are called sociopaths.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Selfish
  • Some People

• Actors, you have to wait for people to give you work, or you have to make your own stuff. But standup, I could just say, 'I want to do standup in 30 minutes,' and I can go do standup. Or I could just say, 'I want to do standup in a few weeks in this city.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Work
  • City

• I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.

  

  Michael C. Hall
  • Thinking
  • Homosexual
  • Loathing

• The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Live
  • Die

• My goals as an artist have nothing to do with speaking to an audience. I love to have a good time, but when it comes to poetry I'm not really interested in writing poetry that seeks to entertain or operate safely within the mainstream and, to be clear, I'm not disparaging the really phenomenal work that does - it's just not my interest as a poet.

  

  Dawn Lundy Martin
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Artist

• It always felt like you were trying too hard to look like the audience or something. That whole thing about the artistic integrity, which, of course, I've never bought into - with any artist. It's just not a real thing.

  

  David Bowie
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Artist

• I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

  

  Jewel Kilcher