Jackie DeShannon Quotes
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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This town was built on nepotism.
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All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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I liked to play dress-up.
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Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
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Patients are becoming aware that they're being taken for a ride by big pharma companies. They charge high prices and have never cared for India's healthcare. There are 23 million cases of cancer every year and India has a fair share of that.
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I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
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We should be firing bad teachers.
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That's what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best place I could possibly be is in a tunnel far under the cool, dark earth. Someone asks me a question and I stare at them, empty-faced, my brain jammed up with how hard I'm trying to find something interesting to say. And in the end, all I can do is nod or shrug, because the light of their eyes looking at me, waiting for me, is just too much to take. And then it's over and there's one more person in the world who thinks I'm a complete and total waste of space.
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There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent.
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All you need is a pool table, beer, an electric jukebox and good conversation. The day a girl beats me in a game of Beirut a kind of beer pong is a good sign!
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Ignorance is kind of bliss.
