Rickie Lee Jones Quotes
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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A need for enforcement implies the possibility of behavior that violates the rules of the game. The point is that if there were no possibility of violation, then you wouldn't need enforcement.
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Set your goals high; make friends with different kinds of people; enjoy simple pleasures. Stand on high ground; sit on level ground; walk on expansive ground.
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Some people say, "If you trust in God's unconditional love, why do you need to pray?" A better ending is "why wouldn't you want to?"
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Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
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They literally have what they would call "a four-quadrant" movie that they could just release at any moment. Parents want to go there, kids want to go there, hipsters want to go there. It's like everyone will want to see it.
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It's okay to have flaws, that's what makes you real.
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What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?
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He was funny and focused and fierce. I mean the guy could be fierce. And there wasn’t anything mean about him. I didn’t understand how you could live in a mean world and not have any of that meanness rub off on you.
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I think we are very much in the game but have some hard work to do tomorrow.
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If you wish others to respect you, you must show respect for them...Everyone wants to feel that he counts for something and is important to someone. Invariably, people will give their love, respect, and attention to the person who fills that need. Consideration for others generally reflects faith in self and faith in others.
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He always threw to the right base. We say that about most outfielders. Ruth always threw to the right base. DiMaggio always threw to the right base. The others maybe did, maybe didn’t. Mays most of the time threw to the right base, but Ruth always threw to the right base.
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The Founders believed that liberty depended on persons with the maturity to avoid both radical self-assertion and a timid reliance on the state.
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I've always thought that a name says a lot about a person. So naturally, being named Howard, I always wanted to crawl into a hole.
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Feminism has led the way in demystifying personal relations, forcefully insisting they are political to the core.
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I went to MIT. I do rocket science. Being a mom is much harder.
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The oppressed becomes the oppressor. Look at Russia, it’s heading back to Stalin.
