Rickie Lee Jones Quotes
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.
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When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.
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The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.
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No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?
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Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
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I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.
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Number one I think we should impose a fee or a tax on the transportation of trash per mile.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.
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The world's major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.
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Vampires are handy characters, as they can do double duty as monster/villains and the classic, misunderstood romantic hero.
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It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.
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I do believe, as a person of color, the disparities are great. A lot of the roles that were sent to me were 'Gangbanger No. 1.' And when a role did come up that I felt carried and represented my community in the best ways, I wasn't the only one that knew it existed. So I'd have to compete.
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I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.
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I want to say very clearly that the government... is ready to intervene in order to guarantee the stability of banks and the savings of our citizens.
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For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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The more we give to others, the more we are increased.
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All we ever wanna do is inspire somebody to be who they wanna be and to give them a little bit of hope.
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I'm so centered in feeling great about me that I can give great things to my son and my husband and my family.
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There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.
