Jamila Woods Quotes
I'm creating art that can be healing. Art that can make you feel like you're not alone, like you're not an outsider. Art that is useful.
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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I can't cook to save my life.
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Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
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A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.
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I was filled with hate and anger. But during my trial, something decisive happened: Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and it was an unbelievable feeling to know that there is someone fighting for you on the outside. Amnesty's 'soft' approach made me seriously consider alternatives to revenge.
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What appears spectral today will be natural tomorrow.
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He named me. He liked the sound of it. And I said, well, all right. I felt a little odd about it. I don't understand all that name changing business anyway... No, he felt that Lauren Bacall was better sounding than Betty Bacall. He had a vision of his own. He was a svengali. He wanted to mold me. He wanted to control me. And he did until Mr. Bogart got involved.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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I look at [Toronto] and think well, perhaps my grandchildren will someday look at this stuff with the sort of appreciation I once held for Art Deco. Although I've come to find Art Deco quite creepy too.
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I'm creating art that can be healing. Art that can make you feel like you're not alone, like you're not an outsider. Art that is useful.
