Jillian Rose Banks Quotes
I think social media is an interesting beast - you can't get too caught up in it. People can get caught up in it sometimes, but I think it's important to live in the present and not on the computer screen.
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I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
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What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?
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There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
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I cannot believe how much love people have shown me.
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I just feel it's important to make sure that behind the scenes is as filled with diverse voices as in front of the scene is.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
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To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.
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I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.
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I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
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When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.
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People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
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We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.
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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. It's always been a part of me.
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Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?
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I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.
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The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.
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I just want people to know out there no matter what they've done, God doesn't judge us on how many sins.
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I was a tomboy as a kid - I was skinny and had cropped hair and was often mistaken for a boy - and up until I was about six, I had my own very fluid ideas of gender in that I believed that, somehow, an individual could choose whether or not s/he wanted to be a boy or a girl.
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No problem is insoluble, given a big enough plastic bag.
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I think women are excellent social critics.
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I think social media is an interesting beast - you can't get too caught up in it. People can get caught up in it sometimes, but I think it's important to live in the present and not on the computer screen.
