Jill Scott Quotes
I'm looking for someone who works as hard as I do. Who loves their work as much as I do, so at the end of the night we have something real to talk about, something exciting that makes our blood flow and boil.
Quotes to Explore
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.
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Once upon a time, I was a little girl sick in the hospital, and my mother gave me a copy of 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' to comfort me.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wield its truths so that these may become of more speedy and accurate practical application for the purposes of mankind than the means hitherto in our possession have rendered possible.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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I'm a big music person. I compare a lot of my emotions to how something sounds.
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Content is not the pathway to great deeds.
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In a fascist system, it's not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can't tell real news from fake, they give up their demands for accountability bit by bit.
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Integrating in the society is a fundamental scriptural Christian trait. This integration is a must - moderate constructive integration. All of us, as Egyptians, have to participate.
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People are really concerned about my relationship status. When I tell people I'm happy being single, they don't believe me. They say: 'You have to be miserable being alone'.
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I'm looking for someone who works as hard as I do. Who loves their work as much as I do, so at the end of the night we have something real to talk about, something exciting that makes our blood flow and boil.
