Rickie Lee Jones Quotes
In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
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What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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I don't put on makeup when I'm getting ready for a game, because why would I? I am gearing up for battle. How is mascara or eyeliner going to help me win?
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Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, 'Oh, I wish I did that!' I don't think I've had a facial since I was 19.
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An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.
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I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
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I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases.
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One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.
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I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
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Which came first - the observer or the particle?
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To disband the armies and destroy the forts, to diffuse love and brotherhood, and peace and justice in the place of war and strife, could tend only to the buidling up of character, the elevation of the soul, and the strength and well-being of the state.
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One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing. The miner does not sit at the top of the shaft waiting for the coal to come bubbling up to the surface. One must go deep down, and work out every vein carefully.
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I am very happy to be an American. I realize what a valuable inheritance that is.
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No one has ever drowned in sweat.
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What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
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Over the years I learned that you can have it all - just not at the same time.
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What good is telling America's children that they will have equal opportunity for education if they don't have the skills that will even get them to the point of benefiting from education, because they didn't have the child care, the health care that would enable them to grow as strong and constructive human beings?
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In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.
