Jewel Kilcher (Jewel) Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
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'The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
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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.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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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.
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I don't want to live on past records.
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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.
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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.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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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.
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No one wants to read an apologetic book.
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I haven't been the best boyfriend or husband, and that means I don't get to spend every day with my daughter.
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I hope everyone goes through life seeking knowledge.
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Human destiny will be what we make of it. And here in Prague, let us honor our past by reaching for a better future. Let us bridge our divisions, build upon our hopes, accept our responsibility to leave this world more prosperous and more peaceful than we found it. Together we can do it.
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The thing about happiness is that it doesnt help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I'm grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I've had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me.
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From my experience dealing with Sichuan after the 2008 earthquake I started to understand very clearly the character of local government. They will do anything. You will never really wrongly accuse them of anything because they do everything.
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The leaders come up from the volunteers that do the work, and it's amazing because then they do these incredible things in their community that they never thought they had the power to make that happen.
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I don't want to be one of those young actors who is around for a couple of years and melts off the scene.
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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.
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All I ever wanted to do was make things. My whole life has been a constant evolution on that theme.
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Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.
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I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.
