Jill Scott Quotes
I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.
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Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners collude out of mutual interest in their sport's image and general welfare, there are no real alliances or partnerships in boxing.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
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My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
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I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.
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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
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If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.
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Avarice is a deadly sin.
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I don't know what it is about me, but I don't think of myself as sexy; I never have.
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Four hundred is a lot. When I was young, I remember Kapil Dev getting it, and it was quite a big thing. An Indian had taken it. I feel honoured and proud that God has given me a chance to reach 400 wickets. It's a big thing for me; I don't know about others.
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Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
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Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
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Plants, animals, and stars are all kept in place, bridled along appointed ways, with one another, and through the midst of one another - killing and being killed, eating and being eaten, in harmonious proportions and quantities.
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I wrote 'Buried Child' in a trailer at an old ranch house we had in California.
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There was a time I wouldn't fly to California if I had to spend the night. Can you believe it? I would not fly to California, the phrase was, 'if the sun has to set on me.' I just had prejudices against it.
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Speaking during a discussion at 'Kirchentag,' a multi-day meeting sponsored by the Protestant church in Germany in Berlin, Germany on May 25, 2017. Source: Dovere, Edward-Isaac (25 May 2017). 'Obama in Berlin: 'We can’t hide behind a wall''. Politico. Archived from the original on 2 June 2017. Retrieved 2 June2017.
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Wall Street is at best ambivalent. The size of the accounts is nothing big. How many Wall Street firms do you know that are running after people with $5,000 accounts?
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I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.
