Jill Scott Quotes

I don't necessarily think of myself as a feminist, but I'm a whole person.

Jill Scott

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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.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Player

• I need to meet people to be able to write.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • People
  • Need
  • Meet

• I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Africa
  • House of Representatives
  • Subcommittee

• 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.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Congress
  • Property

• 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.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • People
  • Know
  • Sex

• It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • Life
  • School
  • Money

• 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.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Myself

• Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Good
  • God
  • Feel Good

• A movie star is someone who has to open a film to gazillions of dollars. I'm just trying to pay my mortgage.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Trying
  • Movie
  • Star

• 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.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Up
  • Good
  • Live

• Why do people stay in relationships that are tough from almost the very beginning?

  

  Ira Sachs
  • People
  • Why
  • Beginning

• 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.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Kids
  • Hope
  • Parents

• 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.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Men
  • Different
  • Desire

• Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Beautiful
  • Me
  • Child

• A pound invested in energy efficiency buys seven times more energy solution than a pound invested in nuclear power.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Efficiency

• I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Driving

• Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Men
  • Today
  • Direction

• By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Granny made.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Up
  • Best
  • Clown

• Dream and Ne-Yo understand what women go through, what we feel, what we talk about, what we're scared of, and I think that their records show that clearly as well.

  

  Bridget Kelly
  • Women
  • Dream

• Iggy Pop is a pure Michigan product - gritty, smart, but not afraid of looking stupid or foolish. His father was once a high school English teacher. I love Iggy as a physical entity, sinewy, twisty - even in old age - an embodiment of rock and roll history.

  

  David Means
  • School
  • History
  • High

• There is no force inherent in living matter, no vital force independent of and differing from the cosmic forces; the energy which living matter gives off is counterbalanced by the energy which it receives.

  

  William Thomas Councilman
  • Science
  • Giving
  • Independent

• Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Soldier

• I used to make up stories about my father. I would go to the movies and look for a character who looked like my father.

  

  Danny Aiello
  • Up
  • Character
  • Father

• I don't necessarily think of myself as a feminist, but I'm a whole person.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Feminist