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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We never take people seriously when they are alive, but once they are gone, we always think that we should have treated them better.
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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 like to be in my pajamas all day. Sometimes I don't wash for days because I like to read and sit around. I like to eat in bed.
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And as far as doing God's work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are the same self-interested sorts Jesus threw out of the temple.
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I used to get taxed on my allowance. Yeah, I've been taxed since I was a little kid. And at the end of the year I had to pick a charity to donate my taxes to.
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People won’t start dumping Google en masse; Google is a habit.
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When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?
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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.
