Jill Scott Quotes
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.
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I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.
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Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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Urfa chillies are a Turkish variety that are mild on heat but big on aroma. They're sweet, smoky, a lovely dark red, and go with just about anything.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me.
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I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
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I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake.
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We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.
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My siblings were pretty far apart in age, so I sort of grew up as an only child.
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The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.
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In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.
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I've always known, before I had a record deal, that the thing is to go out and put on the show. I've been doing that from day one.
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Within the U.N. itself, I have appointed a record number of women to high-level positions. I did not fill jobs with women just for the sake of it - I looked for the best possible candidate, and I found that if you strip away discrimination, the best possible candidate is often a woman.
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'We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.'
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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
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Oh, Brignal banks are wild and fair,And Greta woods are green,And you may gather garlands thereWould grace a summer's queen.
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
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I hated, when I was a kid, being told that 'Black people don't do that.' And the white kids at school didn't accept me because I was black, and the black kids in my neighborhood didn't accept me because they thought I thought I was white.
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For me, creating music is just as relaxing as sitting down and doing nothing.
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I had all these singles come out within a two-month period, and then nothing for almost two years. You start to feel a little irrelevant. You realize how many people there are trying to be songwriters and how competitive it is and how political things can be.
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I do want love. Genuine love.
