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

• Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• 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

• 'Orange Is the New Black' was by far the most watched show in both France and Germany and, in fact, all of the markets that we launched.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Black
  • New
  • Orange

• 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

• Wit is not levelled so much at the muscles as at the heart; and the latter will sometimes smile when there is not a single wrinkle on the cheek.

  

  George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
  • Heart
  • Sometimes
  • Wrinkles

• The storyteller is one who comes bearing a great and lasting gift.

  

  Edward Eggleston
  • Gift
  • Storyteller
  • Bearing

• There is a certain depth of illness that is piercing in its isolation: the only rule of existence is uncertainty, and the only movement is the passage of time. One cannot bear to live through another loss of function, and sometimes friends and family cannot bear to watch. An unspoken, unbridgeable divide may widen. Even if you are still who you were, you cannot actually fully be who you are.

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Existence

• Among all the valuable things of this world, the word is the most precious. For in the word one can find a light which gems and jewels do not possess; a word may contain so much life that it can heal the wounds of the heart. Therefore, poetry in which the soul is expressed is as living as a human being. The greatest reward that God bestows on man is eloquence and poetry. This is not an exaggeration, for it is the gift of the poet that culminates, in time, with the gift of prophecy.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • World
  • Things
  • Word

• 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