Rickie Lee Jones Quotes

Whatever it is Christ said doesn't get a fair shake. There's not much written, it was done 150 years later, and it was used to create an empire. So can we get rid of all that and just see what the guy said?

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• We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

  

  Irving Layton
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Whatever

• Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Doubt
  • Said
  • Try

• Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Said
  • Drug
  • Because

• I never said I don't like gay people.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • People
  • Gay
  • Said

• It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Work
  • Said
  • Employees

• What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.

  

  P. D. James
  • Child
  • Give
  • Later

• Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Think
  • Said
  • Independence

• So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Said
  • Italian
  • Steal

• At least two or three of the leagues in Europe over the last few months have said to us, 'We hope you go to the Olympics,' and I looked at them, and I said, 'Why?' and they go, 'Because if you don't send NHL players, we have to send our players, and that's way too disruptive to our season.'

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Why
  • Hope
  • You

• Whatever you are, be a good one.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • You
  • Whatever

• My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.

  

  Kate Millett
  • You
  • Sister
  • Said

• I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Want
  • Moment
  • Said

• I've always said I'm the worst representative of Muslim-Americans that's ever existed, because I've been inside more bars than mosques.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Always
  • Said
  • Inside

• I did a book event with a former colleague, Bob Bauer, and was so relieved that he said I got all the CIA stuff right.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Book
  • Said
  • Event

• It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Said
  • Weakness

• My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Friends
  • Always
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• The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Said
  • Constitution
  • Ultimate

• I want it to be said when I leave this world that 'he was not just a money-making machine.'

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • World
  • Money
  • Want

• But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • People
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• I made this Swedish movie called 'Snabba Cash,' or 'Easy Money,' and it was shown at the Berlin Film Festival. A lot of American studios, agents, and people like that saw it there and liked it.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • People
  • Money
  • American

• The government being the peoples business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore as essential to honest administration as freedom of speech is to representative government. Equal rights to all and special privileges to none is the maxim which should control in all departments of government.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Time
  • Honest
  • Special

• If climate change drove the megafauna extinct, then this presents yet another reason to worry about what we are doing to global temperatures. If, on the other hand, people were to blame—and it seems increasingly likely that they were—then the import is almost more disturbing. It would mean that the current extinction event began all the way back in the middle of the last ice age. It would mean that man was a killer—to use the term of art an “overkiller”—pretty much right from the start.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Reason
  • Climate Change
  • Temperature

• Whatever it is Christ said doesn't get a fair shake. There's not much written, it was done 150 years later, and it was used to create an empire. So can we get rid of all that and just see what the guy said?

  

  Rickie Lee Jones
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  • Whatever
  • Empire