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.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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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.
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Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
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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.'
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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.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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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.
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I just can't read music.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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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.
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The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don't push it under the rug.
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If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
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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.
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I am just like my mother. She raised me to love and take care of animals, especially the ones that need it the most and so I started Eddie's Rescue Ranch. We take in animals that need extra care and attention and the animals that get left behind.
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I thought I'd miss cursing, but I actually don't. I still feel like I can get my point across without real harsh language.
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My wife was a licensed psychologist by profession and a college professor of psychology.
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It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straight-up-and-down little kid to a very curvaceous woman, and it was just horrifying to me.
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The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.
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My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.
