Rickie Lee Jones Quotes
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These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.
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Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.
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We will do everything to change what needs to be changed, fight against recession so that the country meets its targets, while reinforcing our country in the heart of the euro and the European Union.
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With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
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The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.
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'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.
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We have to look to the well-being of the Lebanese citizens and create prosperity in the country, and you can't create prosperity without stability.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
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As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.
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I am a Republican because the United States is a republic, and the views we hold represent the foundation our country was built on so many years ago.
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I love rock music, I love country music - I love all music, let's be honest!
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I hate political correctness.
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I think there are three main values which are fundamental: that Georgia will never be a criminal country, that Georgia will never return to corruption, and that Georgia will be independent.
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There's lots of things I'd die for, Emily; my home, my family, my country. But that's love, not principle.
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Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property.
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There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
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The nation is trying to make Chile a country of proprietors, not of proletarians.
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There will always be a measure of calculated risk-taking in manufacturing fame, especially in a deeply divided political climate.
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A lot of the songs are very rock-oriented. My voice makes them country, and a lot of people think that is a strange combination... I think it creates something different and unique.
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You know what gets me? … How everybody says 'fuck' and 'shit' all the time. I used to be scared shitless if I'd say 'fuck' or 'shit' in public, by accident. Now everybody says 'fuck' and 'shit', 'fuck' and 'shit' all the time. Something very big must have happened while we were out of the country.
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The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.
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Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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All you can worry about as CEO is making sure your company continues to build great products, deliver the revenue, and keep your customers happy.
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It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.
