Jill Scott Quotes

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

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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

• 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

• 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
  • Doing
  • Voice

• 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

• Groupon is a great concept packaged in a superb name, but the concept of group discounts is not new.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Great
  • Name
  • Group

• When I started writing about art, there were no curators.

  

  Waldemar Januszczak
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Started

• I was lucky enough to go to a school which gave flexibility around education and sport. We had a 1-hour, 30-minute lunch break, and were able to train during this time.

  

  Alistair Brownlee
  • Time
  • School
  • Education

• When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Trying
  • Singing
  • Fly

• Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • Generation
  • Changing
  • Embrace

• The greatest gift you can give anyone is your undivided attention.

  

  Will Schwalbe
  • Attention
  • Greatest
  • Undivided

• The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Universe
  • Justice
  • Acr

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

  

  Jill Scott