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

• The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

  

  David Foster Wallace
  • God
  • Eyes

• For me, it's like biking around the neighborhood, the walks and stuff, because I have never enjoyed the gym. Or I'll do, since I used to dance a lot, all the old dance exercises.

  

  Delta Burke
  • Dance
  • Gym

• People need to know that they are not alone, that they have not been abandoned; but that there is One Who loves them for what they are, Who cares about them.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • People
  • Know
  • Alone

• I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left.

  

  Ellen Burstyn
  • Good

• 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