Rickie Lee Jones Quotes

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.

Rickie Lee Jones

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• When at just 27 years old, Qaddafi, colonel in the Libyan army, inspired by his Egyptian colleague Abdel Nasser, overthrew King Idris I in 1969, he applied important revolutionary measures such as agrarian reform and the nationalization of oil.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Important
  • King
  • Inspired

• I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Winter
  • Kitchen
  • Waves

• I'm like a sight gag.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Like
  • Sight
  • Gag

• Throughout the day, I'll make a lot of green smoothies or salads, and then when I travel, I try my hardest to just keep up the regime. It's not always easy, but I do my best.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Up
  • Day
  • Best

• Something funny certainly happens when palladium and platinum come into contact with hydrogen gas; it's one of the great mysteries still waiting to be solved on the periodic table. But it's quite a leap from 'something funny' to cold fusion.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Waiting

• You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Alone
  • Lonely

• New Year's Eve to Valentine's Day is our peak season, and in many ways, Valentine's Day is our Christmas. Everybody in the world makes the same three New Year's resolutions: health, career and money, and love.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • World
  • Money
  • Love

• People still say to me, 'What, you still live in Mexico?' I don't have to go to the United States simply to find work, and I don't have to stop what I'm doing. I mean, which Hollywood film beats 'The Motorcycle Diaries?'

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • World
  • Different
  • Art

• I haven't had an orthodox career.

  

  Sally Field
  • Career
  • Had
  • Orthodox

• I think people know that I love food, but maybe people don't know that I cook a lot.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • People
  • Love
  • Food

• I believe in following opportunities.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Believe
  • Opportunities

• We travel a lot and don't get enough time to spend with our family, and so we have to take our pictures, videos, also bother about things like which are the HD quality phones. So I'm very much a part of these typical things.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Time
  • Family
  • Quality

• I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Waiting
  • Films
  • Bigger

• I don't want to be one of those guys that you see who made $4 million, invested $3.5 million, and now you work at Wendy's.

  

  Wale
  • Work
  • Want
  • See

• Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the Inquisition.

  

  Frank Zappa

• I don't get recognised until I'm on stage, and then I can walk off and forget about it. It's great.

  

  Rick Astley
  • Great
  • Forget
  • Stage

• When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits.

  

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar
  • Action
  • Habit
  • Our Actions

• I am just taking the top fights out there for me. People will get bored seeing me every day knock someone out.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Top
  • Out
  • Fights

• I have been given nothing. God makes men what they are.

  

  William Wallace
  • Men
  • Given
  • Has Beens

• We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Different
  • Father
  • Military

• Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Mind
  • Existence
  • Aim

• All existing things upon this earth, which have knowledge of their own existence, possess, some in one degree and some in another, the power of thought, accompanied by perception, which is the awakening of thought by the effects of external objects upon the senses.

  

  Augustus De Morgan
  • Knowledge
  • Thought
  • Existence

• I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.

  

  Rickie Lee Jones
  • Existence
  • Because
  • Imaginary