Rickie Lee Jones Quotes

I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.

Rickie Lee Jones

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I don't conduct my career for when I'm dead and people say nice things about me. I conduct my career for the here and now, and what excites me, and what interests me.

Joe Carnahan

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If I go anywhere else and win a championship, it's not going to be the same. I want to win a championship in Cleveland. That's where I want to stay. I love Cleveland.

Anderson Varejao

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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.

John Mortimer

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I did three television shows in Poughkeepsie in one day, with Adrian Adonis and The Iron Sheik. They gave us no food.

Roddy Piper

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With the House of Marley, over the years we've been trying to establish ourselves not just as a brand but a lifestyle movement. So it's been a challenge to get people to adapt to our new way of thinking. We're all about sustainability, the natural life, the eco life.

Rohan Marley

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I'm a big emotional mess. I try to talk about things that people don't like to talk about, especially in music. Hopefully it reaches someone and lets them access their vulnerability. That's what I want it to accomplish.

Mary Lambert

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Still, I tune out the visual input when it is too distracting, mainly in conversations.

Mike May

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The love affair between black folks and the Clintons has been going on for a long time. It began back in 1992, when Bill Clinton was running for president. He threw on some shades and played the saxophone on 'The Arsenio Hall Show.' It seems silly in retrospect, but many of us fell for that.

Michelle Alexander

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Every character brings new light to a different part of myself, which is something I love about every role I get to play.

Miranda Rae Mayo

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When I retire, I'm going to go home and say, 'I played for what?' You know, if I don't win anything.

Jose Reyes

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We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

William O. Douglas

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As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.

Sharon Salzberg

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