Jill Scott Quotes

Nothing has gotten me out of Philadelphia. I moved 20 minutes away from Philly. That's about it.

Jill Scott

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• Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Happiness

• I spent a lot of time with the LAPD. I spent six weeks training, weapons training, ride-alongs, surveillance, interviewing them, in all different departments and divisions.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Time
  • Different
  • Training

• I learned about M&A and how to value assets and work with investment bankers.

  

  Patricia A. Woertz
  • Work
  • Value
  • Investment

• America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Work
  • America
  • Education

• Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Best
  • Everyone
  • Sure

• The amount of attention and sensitivity and education that we're getting in terms of specifically the transgender community is great, and certainly that's new to me. But it's not incredibly unfamiliar. I grew up in downtown New York in the '80s.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Great
  • Education

• If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Hate

• Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Future
  • Human
  • Promises

• My head is in the game! Like 'High School Musical' taught me. I know what I want, and I know, too, now that you take your craft seriously, but you don't have to take yourself seriously.

  

  Haley Lu Richardson
  • School
  • High
  • Game

• I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Energy
  • Law

• If you're investing in a company in the Bitcoin economy, you have to compare the valuation of the company to the valuation of the entire economy.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Company
  • Economy
  • Bitcoin

• Almost everything The Beatles did was great, and it's hard to improve on. They were our Bach. The way to get around it may be to keep it as simple as possible.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Great
  • May
  • Simple

• It cannot be a coincidence that a European team couldn't win a World Cup held in South America.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • World
  • America
  • Team

• When you're a fledgling youth-type adult, it appears that all people in their 40s look old enough to be in a painting hanging on the wall of a stately home in England. It's not until you limp into your 70s that people in their 40s look too young to vote, and college cheerleaders closely resemble Yorkshire terriers.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • People
  • Home
  • College

• Golf is a better game played downhill.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Game
  • Better
  • Golf

• In maybe 1963, we had 'Collier's Encyclopedia,' and they sent us their yearly LP. I heard the Beatles talking on there. That was the first time I tried altering my voice, doing a Liverpudlian accent.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Doing

• I've been having meetings with people, just everywhere in the world, and it's like, 'Hey, really love you to work with me, send me some ideas.' That's the crazy part.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • World
  • Like

• Ted Cruz, who uses phrases like 'carpet-bombing' the people of ISIS and who said, after the incidents in Paris, that we need a war president, is using fear mongering and hate speech. As a citizen of the world, I'm very concerned that this kind of behavior is being cheered on by anyone. It only brings more pain and suffering.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • World
  • War

• I have always been a multitasker when it comes to my career; I've been an actress, a singer and everything because I love to do what I do.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Career

• Whether it's a guy living in an airport like Viktor Navorski in The Terminal, or Anvil in Toronto, or Alfred Hitchcock who's imprisoned by his success; there is a common thread to all these characters. I don't know why I'm particularly drawn to it. It's been pointed out to me, and I don't understand it myself.

  

  Sacha Gervasi
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Success

• The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Heart
  • Spirit
  • Shadows

• I don't see a day when teenagers don't read. They are very enthusiastic. That is so inspiring to me.

  

  Lisa McMann

• We're always learning. We're all in the process of decolonizing ourselves - removing all the parts of us that are sexist, homophobic, transphobic, racist. I mean, everybody in society needs to be in this process because everybody's been brought up in a misogynist, racist, homophobic, transphobic culture.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Learning

• Nothing has gotten me out of Philadelphia. I moved 20 minutes away from Philly. That's about it.

  

  Jill Scott