Rickie Lee Jones Quotes
When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.

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People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
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It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.
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In a way, 'WALL-E' had some of the same disturbing elements that 'Up' does.
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Is there anything about the JonBenet Ramsey case that isn't weird and disturbing?
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If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. … I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.
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We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.
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the possibility of war is real and very disturbing.
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The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it.
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It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow.
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No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself.
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Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance.
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The ruling class isn't dissatisfied: they are healthy, well-fed, live in beauty, enjoy their own importance: fun-loving cannibals.
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The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts.
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The direction we are going in at this moment is the negation of material goods as being important and the great importance of spiritual values and sensations. Permissiveness, if you will. There is tremendous talk of sex and bi-sexuality.
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Suffering over something is proof positive of its importance.
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Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capitalism is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.
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My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment.
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I hope in time N. H. as well as the other States will feel the importance of Sovereignty.
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It's a bit disturbing to me that people have to evolve to the idea that people are equal.
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Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn't find the guts to do.
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If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the industry goes. But now, we are in an age of a lot of different kinds of fears, and you have the science fiction and horror genres doing our morality plays the same way that they would have done in Westerns. I absolutely accept it. In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.
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In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.
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The materials shape your idea.
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When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.