Rickie Lee Jones Quotes
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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The issue with Syria, I think for many of us, has always been about Iran. This is an anchor point for them in terms of regional domination. It means a lot to them. They are all in here.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
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He'd never seen Seinfeld, so he didn't know who Puddy was or anything.
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I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.
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Fear makes us do things we would otherwise never agree to do, and people can be emotionally manipulated into believing something during times of great stress and tragedy.
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I met Kanye. I'm starstruck, man, but I stayed away from that guy. I didn't want him to go on a rant, go off on me. He did it at his wedding.
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Don't ever play yourself.
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Poor laborers from all parts of Asia as well as Africa, the Americas and even Europe are transported by plane each day to wealthier nations where low-tier jobs are plentiful; sometimes the travelers board without even knowing their final destination.
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Doing a song that's sassy but kind of has that little flair to it, it's very me.
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I have confidence that the Unitarian Church will steadily grow and will help to sustain many of my fellow citizens in these important days that lie ahead of us.
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I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.
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[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap.
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What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.
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The day of the wedding went like these things generally do, full of anxious moments interspersed with black comedy.
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You [as a president] have to have a strong team around you. You have to have respect for institutions and the process to make good decisions because you are inherently reliant on other folks.
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For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.
