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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You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.
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In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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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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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
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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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One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.
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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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I've never been in New York for the whole time of Fashion Week.
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Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.
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The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces about what they think of Neil Young, or why they quit watching ER or whatever. And because of that, I think there's a lot of people who write about my books with the premise of, "Why this guy? Why not me?"
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.
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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.
