Jill Scott Quotes
A nutritionist has told me to have very little butter and very little spices, but I can't live like that.
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I care most about how people live their lives, what choices they make, and how they get the best from themselves.
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It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.
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If someone said, 'You can go live in this little town in Costa Rica for a couple of weeks and all you've got to do is sing for us,' I would do that. That's more exciting to me than the prospect of going on some national tour, where you're going to play arenas or sheds every night, because of the crushing repetition of that kind of line.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
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For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in Syracuse, N.Y., where I live.
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I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
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I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.
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The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.
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Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
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I'm an actor that likes to go to work. I like going to work every day. I'm a worker by nature. I'm not someone who does one film a year and feels satisfied by that.
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I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.
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I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
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We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news.
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Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That's why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.
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As soon as I go out into the world, I belong, in a way, to everyone else. It's legal to follow me. It's legal to stalk me at the beach. And I can't call the police or ask them to leave.
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Some people are born gardeners, some are politicians. I was an actor. It took a great deal of pain before I figured that out. I didn't relate to most of it.
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Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.
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A nutritionist has told me to have very little butter and very little spices, but I can't live like that.
