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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• I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • People
  • Love
  • Faith

• 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

• There's a high head count on 'Homeland.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • High
  • Head
  • Count

• 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

• I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Think
  • Anger

• I actually wanted to be a zookeeper when I was 5.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Wanted
  • Actually

• 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

• My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went up to Liverpool and I met my great-aunt, who was just a force of nature. She was an elocution teacher and a huge enthusiast for theater and the classics. I took her amateur acting class, and she was really impressed with me.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Up
  • Great
  • Family

• [On President Kennedy's assassination Nov. 22, 1963:] Something dreadful is going to happen to the president today.

  

  Jeane Dixon
  • Dreadful
  • Assassination
  • President Kennedy

• The more space and emptiness you can create in yourself, then you can let the rest of the world come in and fill you up.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Up
  • World
  • Space

• He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Poet
  • Homer
  • Gertrude Stein

• As an entrepreneur, you can have an instinct, and your instinct is right, but your idea you're substantiating that into is wrong, and the world is not ready for it.

  

  Mark Pincus
  • World
  • Entrepreneur

• 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