Rickie Lee Jones Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
-
How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
-
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.
-
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.
-
When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
-
After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
-
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
-
He'd never seen Seinfeld, so he didn't know who Puddy was or anything.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Don't ever play yourself.
-
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.
-
Doing a song that's sassy but kind of has that little flair to it, it's very me.
-
We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about complexity is it's fundamentally intractable in many ways, so you're not responsible for outcomes.
-
Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.
-
I always run ahead of the ticket compared to Democratic presidential candidates. But this time there were a lot of people that just voted party line, a lot more than usual.
-
For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
-
For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.
