Rickie Lee Jones Quotes
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I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
Kate Micucci
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
P. J. O'Rourke
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
Sally Phillips
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
Radhanath Swami
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I would rather be on the set than doing anything.
Orson Welles
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The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.
Dale T. Mortensen
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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
Carlos Santana Santana
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The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
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That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.
Calvin Johnson
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
Mads Mikkelsen
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
Hanoi Hannah
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
Nancy Reagan
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On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.
A. N. Wilson
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Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.
Kate Reardon
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What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
Salman Rushdie
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If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.
Tavi Gevinson
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If I die tomorrow, I've done the two hardest things anybody can do in this life with the least amount of security - music and acting - and I've had success in both. I can't really complain. I try not to live my life that way.
Yul Vazquez
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Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.
Victoria Abril
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When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.
Gagan Narang
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Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts.
William Shakespeare
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More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
Natalie Dormer
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We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I've always had an active imagination.
Rickie Lee Jones