Rickie Lee Jones Quotes
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I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait.
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Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
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The history of business has shown that companies usually only regulate themselves if they're forced to by legislation, or out of self-interest - often in the shape of a marketable message that will help sell more products.
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Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed, and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control.
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My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
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I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.
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I think diversity is something that should be celebrated because it's who we are as a world, and little kids need to be able to turn on the TV and see real-world representations of themselves. It's very important.
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My parents didn't give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like 'go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don't come crying to us when you get scratched. You've got prosthetic legs - that's very nice.'
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If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?
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I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.
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America is a world leader, but we should not be its policeman or ATM.
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When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.
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I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.
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Some friends of mine had parents who made school a treat, a gift - not something to be endured.
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In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.
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If you can unify the public mind saving an iconic species like the tiger, like they did with the panda, that means you have to protect their habitat and everything that they hunt. And that means saving massive, thousands of acres for them to be able to roam and breed. So it's more of a land effort.
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I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era.
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To be premature is to be perfect.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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God does not love sinners because they are attractive; sinners are attractive to God because he loves them.
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Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old song. They fit my lifestyle with newly arriving butcher/censors every month. Only six weeks ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, censored some 75 separate sections from the novel. Students, reading the novel which, after all, deals with censorship and book-burning in the future, write to tell me of this exquisite irony.
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I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.'
