Rickie Lee Jones Quotes
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I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
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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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One can not impede scientific progress.
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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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I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.
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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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OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
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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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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were as useful as a bishop's mire it would be rejected. Once you are defeated let the humblest-looking among you sponsor it and your enemies to humble you will approve it.
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I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.
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There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.
