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?
Quotes to Explore
-
We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I never said I don't like gay people.
-
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.
-
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
-
Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of 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.
-
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.'
-
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-
My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.
-
I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.
-
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.
-
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.
-
My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.
-
The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.
-
I want it to be said when I leave this world that 'he was not just a money-making machine.'
-
Later, I even appeared in a Rock Opera with Richard Gere.
-
I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.
-
The most nervous-making point at the moment is Brazil, ... The international economy rallied around Brazil and hopes very much the Brazilians will be able to fulfill their part of the bargain with the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and keep their economy from going under.
-
It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.
-
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?
