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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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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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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To be premature is to be perfect.
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Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?
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I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into St Martin's art school and saw a voluptuous woman sitting on a stool being sketched. I decided to get myself fired.
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If we had a truth-in Government act comparable to the truth-in-advertising law, every note issued by the Treasury would be obliged to include a sentence stating: This note will be redeemed with the proceeds from an identical note which will be sold to the public when this one comes due.
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Charles Pierce, Bea Arthur, and I were like a terrible little trio.
