Jamila Woods Quotes
I really value what Closed Sessions is doing to build the Chicago music scene and am excited to partner with them for my first solo project.
Quotes to Explore
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.
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Well who's black and what is a black person?
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If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
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There's no regrets for me.
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With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're looking at with these genetic tests, it's not like you're condemned to automatically get the disease or the syndrome. There's a lot of factors in play there.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?
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The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.
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I was born in Newton, MA. Graduated from Brown University in 2001 with honors in English as a playwright. I attended the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Center in Waterford, CT just after Brown. I moved to NYC in 2002 and was a professional... waiter, for 3 years.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play music.
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Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.
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I really value what Closed Sessions is doing to build the Chicago music scene and am excited to partner with them for my first solo project.
