Joss Stone (Joscelyn Eve Stoker) Quotes
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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I like the MAC Face and Body foundation. Sometimes it can't cover all my flaws, but I like it because it looks really natural and it evens out my skin tone.
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Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn't cause their murder. But if I'm suffering because of it, it's my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.
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The nature of an ensemble means when you're a supporting character and not the lead character, you get little tidbits here and there, but you're usually there to provide bits of comic relief and little bits of action or something.
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I enjoy what I do because it keeps evolving - when I was a cook, I wanted to be a chef de partie; when I was a chef de partie, I wanted to be a chef; when I was a chef, I wanted to be a restaurateur, and now I am a chef entrepreneur. I am still fulfilling my dream.
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. But I've been able to do different things.
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In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking phone calls. He's one of the many philosophers I've always read and admired.
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My very sassy, older southern sister is very quick to point out that it's a luxury that my daughter gets to come to work with me. She does, and I have lunch with her every single day. My mom says I have 'high class problems.'
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I know very few Americans, though I like the way they think. They think big.
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I was signed at 18 and had to grow up quickly.
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Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
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I'm not trying to acquire a reputation as serious documentary maker for its own sake.
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I think that's one of the greatest gifts that I have: that I can get someone to open up, and all you have to do is ask a question and not feel like you need a response.
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You work very hard on the lyrics. Getting them to fit the contours of improvised melodies.
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If you're looking for a quick hit, that means you're looking for something disposable.
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If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.
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The thing that was most constant when I was growing up was just complete support and adoration from my parents.
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As we get older, life becomes very complicated in terms of concessions we have to make.
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I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.
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I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. For example, it is essential to use a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less likely you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger - they slip far more often.
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Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.
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To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.
