Jamila Woods Quotes
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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I have a great office.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.
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It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way.
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You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.
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Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know?
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I find that life is easier when it is just a blurWith no details to confuse who or what or where I wasSo when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure
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Those of us in public office and those of us who aspire to public office have a responsibility to be reasonable, fact-based, in our rhetoric and to not suggest things that are unreasonable, to whip up a lot of emotion in public, which can lead to government overreach, fear, suspicions, and prejudice.
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We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song.
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People in all walks of life, and especially business, do not want to experience the collapse of cities like New York along with global finance and economy in chaos, but this is what business faces if we continue to attribute climate change to fossil fuels alone.
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The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is very close to the center of a nation's purpose...and is a test of the quality of a nation's civilization.
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I read 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison in college, and it just blew my mind.
