Jill Scott Quotes
The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.
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How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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I didn't change the world.
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Many have observed that Elizabeth Edwards could be a political figure in her own right. She has never had an interest in that.
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If you're from South London you feel like you're always trying to win people over, so perhaps that underdog passion comes through.
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We are our children's first teachers.
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So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.
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The artists who stand out to me have a passion for what they do. There are a lot of people who can sing. It's just like when you go to church and people are singing because it sounds good, not because it feels good. There's a difference.
