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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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
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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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LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children.
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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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When I first started writing songs, I looked around at the bands that were making it, and they all had the original material. Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles, the Stones - everybody was writing their own songs. That's the way that you established your own identity.
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Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
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If I was at school and one of my friends said something funny, I'd write it down in a notebook and take it to the writers meetings. I never told my friends about it. I just thought I could incorporate stuff that was true to life.
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I think the French girls are fabulous.
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I read 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison in college, and it just blew my mind.
