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.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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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.
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I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
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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.
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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.'
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My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
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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.
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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.
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Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
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How fleeting is this world yet it survives. It is ourselves that fade from it and our ephemeral lives.
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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.
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You break it, you own it.
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I would love to learn how to air kiss non-awkwardly.
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Foreign press is usually leftist and describes us differently from what we really are.
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Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.
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I'm social and I meet people and talk to people but I'm not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I'm just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I'm around and who I cross paths with.
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When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. 'Own a Picasso' was one of those things.
