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 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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I've fallen in love with the classical world of imagery, and what I'd like to do now over the last bit of my life is to photograph some nudes.
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Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.
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I'm totally aware of how lucky I am. I have health, family, children. I do work that gives me total joy and allows me to make a living, and maybe, if I'm lucky enough, I'll feel I've fulfilled a little bit of service to society because I brought other people some laughter.
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I've told Billy [Bob Thornton] if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.
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I can't not write funny. It's literally the only way I know how to do it.
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It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.
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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.
