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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Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
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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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We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.
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Football is all I know.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.
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Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
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I read 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison in college, and it just blew my mind.
