Rickie Lee Jones Quotes
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
Parker Stevenson -
You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
Warren Zevon -
Reverence is fatal to literature.
E. M. Forster -
There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
Orson Welles -
I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
Adam Ferrara -
Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
Wendi McLendon-Covey
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I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
Olivier Theyskens -
I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
Sam Neill -
I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
Tavi Gevinson -
I just can't read music.
Kate Smith -
If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
J. K. Simmons -
I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.
Bailey Chase
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The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don't push it under the rug.
Octavia Spencer -
If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
Fran Tarkenton -
I've heard 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' read, and I tell you Mrs. Stowe's pen hasn't begun to paint what slavery is as I have seen it at the far South. I've seen de real thing, and I don't want to see it on no stage or in no theater.
Harriet Tubman -
Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.
Ice Cube -
Some actors can create characters and leave them at 'Cut!', but I work the opposite way and drag them out of me. For me, it's about fixing your fabric to fit the role.
Sam Worthington -
Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.
Saint Ambrose
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It's so ironic - when you finally achieve recognition, you hide behind dark glasses.
Madhuri Dixit -
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Attack politics costs us dearly in terms of insight into the candidates. In a presidential campaign, the focus is so tight that the politicians are afraid to say anything that hasn't been scripted.
Jack Germond -
No social co-operation under the division of labour is possible when some people or unions of people are granted the right to prevent by violence and the threat of violence other people from working. When enforced by violence, a strike in vital branches of production or a general strike are tantamount to a revolutionary destruction of society.
Ludwig von Mises -
A lot of people think medicine hunting is all Chris trekking through the jungle. Or, for that matter, the chiefs and (male) elders he works with. The men get the headlines, but it's the women behind the scenes who are doing the planting and harvesting and chopping.
Zoe Helene -
My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.
Rickie Lee Jones