Jill Scott Quotes
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives.
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When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.
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I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.
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Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; then you become an adult and you think, 'I'm just going to be myself and either they accept it or they don't.' But you know what? I like me, and that's the most important thing.
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Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.
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A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage.
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We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free.
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Why do people stay in relationships that are tough from almost the very beginning?
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There's something pure about our bloodline: There are no accidental kids of gay parents. Every single gay parent desperately, passionately wanted to be a parent. That's neat, and I hope we can keep it that way.
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
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Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.
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A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.
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I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
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Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.
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By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made.
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I have four horses, and they are my everything.
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The so-called 'peace' is an interval between wars.
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A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings, the brushstrokes - more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the other parts.
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I call it an old-fashioned seafood house for the new millennium. We are trying to update what we know as old fish houses and places like that, which are great, but I want to give it a new, fresh look with updated versions of the classics we all love.
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If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?
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A man can trust his luck, but a society can’t; and cultural change, like random mutation, may make things chancier. So they have gone very slowly. At any one point in their history a hasty observer would say that all technological progress and diffusion had ceased. Yet it never has. Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.
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I don't necessarily think of myself as a feminist, but I'm a whole person.
