Jill Sobule Quotes

When people see you have a song on MTV, they think you are doing well - but you know, the way the traditional label deal was set up, it is really hard for an artist, unless they sold a lot, to see anything.

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• I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • School
  • Day
  • Positive

• I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Work
  • Success
  • Football

• Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Wrong
  • Stand
  • Him

• Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Real
  • Me
  • Husband

• My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.

  

  G. Hannelius
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  • Great
  • She

• I must never write when I do not want to write.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Want
  • Never
  • Write

• Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Business
  • Charity
  • Hardest

• I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Live

• I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Love
  • Relationship
  • Day

• I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
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  • Thought
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• I really don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I mean, not only was He the greatest human being to ever walk the earth, He's everything that I want to strive for. He's everything that anyone should ever want to strive for.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Why
  • Earth
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• The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Done
  • History

• At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

  

  Carl Spitteler
  • Up
  • Father
  • Law

• The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.

  

  Babyface
  • People
  • Music
  • Lyrics

• In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.

  

  Sam Kinison
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• Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

  

  Fannie Flagg
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• The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

  

  Ovid
  • Others
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  • Heavier

• When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • Conservative
  • Democrat

• If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• You have to be selfish to be an actor.

  

  Charles Dance
  • Selfish

• Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Family
  • Small
  • Walking

• I used to be a street singer in San Francisco.

  

  Gedde Watanabe

• In the mazes of loitering people, the watchful and furtive,The shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leaves,In the drowse of the sunlight, among the low voices,I suddenly face you

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • People
  • Tree

• When people see you have a song on MTV, they think you are doing well - but you know, the way the traditional label deal was set up, it is really hard for an artist, unless they sold a lot, to see anything.

  

  Jill Sobule
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