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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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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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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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 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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Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establish their state, yet each time they preferred to revert to terrorism?
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I'm not really a green juice kind of guy. I like feeling downtrodden and worthless when I walk around London and have someone click their tongue at me and tell me to speed up.
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I'm a big supporter of immigration.
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I want to have and adopt. I always have; ever since I was 18, I wanted a baby, and I wanted to have and adopt because there are a lot of kids. I want to adopt an American baby though, you know what I mean, no offense. Just because there are so many kids here that need our help.
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Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.
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I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.
