Rickie Lee Jones Quotes
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.
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I want Bolivians to support their president.
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I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why should I work and worry any longer?
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The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.
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I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.
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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer there, there's nobody left.
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As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.
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I'm a very musical person.
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My greatest inspiration is memory.
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You have to take care of your guys. If a guy underperforms, you get rid of him. If a guy overperforms, you take care of him.
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The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge.
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Lipstick doesn't really suit me. For shoots or when I go out, I use it - but if I use it all the time, it makes me look really old, so I keep it natural with nude or a natural pink. Though I did just do a shoot where they did a big red lip, and it looked amazing.
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Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.
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Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.
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Humans like to think of themselves as unusual. We've got big brains that make it possible for us to think, and we think that we have free will and that our behavior can't be described by some mechanistic set of theorems or ideas. But even in terms of much of our behavior, we really aren't very different from other animals.
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Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced.
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I've only been to jail once, and I didn't get my tattoos there.
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When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.
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I'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels.
