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Optimism is a choice. Cynicism isn't smarter - it's just safer.
Jewel
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Jewel
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: May 23
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Jewel Kilcher
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I don't feel like I've changed as much as radio formats have changed.
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I believe in liberty and freedom for all. I believe in gay marriage.
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Suffering is everywhere. Don't ever think it isn't. So are miracles. Don't ever think they aren't.
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Self love is a great recurring theme, the headwaters that feed my ability to be the best version of myself in every other aspect of my life. Self worth sets the standard that life meets.
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I've had mentors who were kind of the troubadour singer-songwriters, like Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Neil Young, and that's just what I've always liked - people who would talk real honestly about their lives and their circumstance.
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I used to love reading when I was little, and then it became difficult and I didn't understand why. I thought, what a bummer, my passion all drained out of me. So when I found out I had dyslexia, it was like, oh, that's what it was.
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People living their lives for you on TV They say they're better than you, and you agree.
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I was Renee Zellweger's fat doppelganger. If she ever played in a movie where she needed to be fat, apparently I could be her stunt double.
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I didn't mean to be a songwriter I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.
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I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.
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When you're standing in deep water And you're bailing yourself out with a straw And when you're drowning in deep water And you wake up making love to a wall Well it's these little time that help to remind It's nothing without love, love, love
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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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Words can crush things that are unseen.
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I say to myself, sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again.
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We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.
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I love to be alone with life. I love to study simple things: the light as it filters in a window the music of a room full of people chatting a horizon.
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Love is a flame neither timid nor tame.
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Worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.
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Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous there's really nothing to lose.
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We must demand more not from each other, but more from ourselves
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