Rickie Lee Jones Quotes
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.
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I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.
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I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.
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I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.
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After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.
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If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.
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My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place.
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What force is more potent than love?
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If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.
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I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers who are here legally than for those who are not. It's also safer for the workers and employers have a more consistent pool of workers.
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Even Jimmy Carter can't be wrong all the time.
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Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
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To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.
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When my coach gives me a program, I damage it.
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In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.
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Don't ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It's too short, and you're too special.
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Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.
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The most dangerous thing I've ever encountered was a run-in with Boko Haram around 2007 in a small town in Nigeria. I got caught along with the photographer I was working with, the same one I worked with on the Afghanistan book, Seamus Murphy. We were caught in an attack by a mob after Friday prayers. And the level of violence was so extreme. It was more violent than any other mob violence I have ever seen.
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Those who peacefully gather to express sympathy for the family of Michael Brown must have their rights respected at all times. And journalists must not be harassed or prevented from covering a story that needs to be told.
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I'm respected, I'm still working, what more could I ask?
