Jill Scott Quotes

When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. 'Own a Picasso' was one of those things.

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• Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Ugly
  • Machine

• Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • True
  • Land
  • Israel

• The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Live
  • Action

• I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Architect
  • Brazilian

• This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • America
  • Bad
  • Beginning

• So many actors started on soap operas. So yeah, I'd graduated Julliard and done some theater. I've done a few guest spots on TV but nothing that long-term. I did a little 'E.R.' back when it was on, and a pilot for 'Cold Case.'

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Long
  • Done
  • Cold

• My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Job
  • Sister
  • Seriously

• We just compare our lifestyle to movies so you can relate to them. When I say, 'I bought a carpet from Aladdin so I could finesse and do magic,' that means I had to get me a new whip or I had to get me something in disguise to work my magic, to finesse, to get out of here.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Work
  • Me
  • Magic

• One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Movie
  • Earth
  • Day

• Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Heart
  • Girl
  • Inside

• I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or mushroom to get to that next realm or level. I don't feel like anything is that tangible. It freaks me out, why I feel unhappy or conflicted and why that can change on a dime.

  

  Carly Pope
  • Change
  • Person
  • Feel

• Normally, if you play a part, you have the words, and you invent the personality out of your experience, your knowledge - your life, in a way.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Words

• A woman has no right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a man’s life any more than a man would have the right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a woman’s life.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Rest

• Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.

  

  Larry Wall

• A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Experience
  • Failure

• How fleeting is this world yet it survives. It is ourselves that fade from it and our ephemeral lives.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • World

• Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered: and all this in a nook of this part of the world; and not even here do all agree, no, not any one with himself: and the whole earth too is a point.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • World
  • Earth

• You break it, you own it.

  

  Colin Powell

• In homes, a haunted apparatus sleeps,That snores when you pick it up.If the ghost cries, they carry itTo their lips and soothe it to sleepWith sounds. And yet, they wake it upDeliberately, by tickling with a finger.

  

  Craig Raine
  • Up

• The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.

  

  Strom Thurmond
  • Understanding
  • Consideration
  • White People

• As soon as a woman is old enough to have an opinion and have a voice and be unafraid, she's very much encouraged by all sorts of people to crawl under a rock and die. And it's so weird. My crime is not dying.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Enough

• Sometimes in Washington you get a little disconnected. I want to make sure I know what people are actually doing each day.

  

  Steven Horsford
  • Washington
  • Disconnected
  • Each Day

• After 30 years in Washington, it is clear that Mitch McConnell has lost touch with our state, its people, and our values.

  

  Matt Bevin
  • People
  • Lost

• When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. 'Own a Picasso' was one of those things.

  

  Jill Scott