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Cynicism is for lightweights.
Jewel
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Jewel
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: May 23
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Utah
Jewel Kilcher
Cynicism
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I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry.'
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I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.
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I have a two-year-old boy. Being his mom feels like I have a present I get to spend the rest of my life opening.
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We've made houses for hatred. It's time we made a place where people's souls may be seen and made safe.
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Excuse me, guess I've mistaken you for somebody else, somebody who gave a damn, somebody more like myself.
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I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.
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Only kindness matters. We are God's hands.
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I was thinking that I might fly today. Just to disprove all the things you say... please be careful with me, I'm sensitive, and I'd like to stay that way.
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But maybe if we are surrounded in beauty Someday we will become what we see
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