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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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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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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When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.
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Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.
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I have always maintained the importance of Aunts...
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After one has been in a lowly position, one knows how dangerous it is to climb to a high place, Once one has been in the dark, one knows how revealing it is to go into the light. Having maintained quietude, one knows how tiring compulsive activity is. Having nurtured silence, one knows how disturbing much talk is.
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I'm a pretty private person. I'm not "out there" out there. From living in New York City, I developed a certain awareness that you have to have when you live by yourself.
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There's only one thing to do with politics, and that is to survive it.
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To me, it is very important to have perfume in which it is hard to recognize a particular flower or scent. That gives a touch of mystery.
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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.
