Jamila Woods Quotes
My entrance to music was singing gospel in church, and to hear that gospel language in a hip-hop song was cool.
Quotes to Explore
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.
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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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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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The government should move towards supporting aspirations and not entitlement. Subsidies supporting non-productive growth should be reduced.
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
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We live in a world fraught with risk from new pandemics. Fortunately, we also now live in an era with the tools to build a global immune system.
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There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
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I don't know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I've always been interested in, not necessarily being unique, but not necessarily sticking to the preexisting paradigm - whether it be clothes or music or whatever.
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I draw inspiration from anything and everybody and that's what country music is to me... real life stories and real life emotions.
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Music was transmitted over the airwaves in the '60s - for free, even - astonishingly enough without Bit Torrent.
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My entrance to music was singing gospel in church, and to hear that gospel language in a hip-hop song was cool.
