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

• I love writing for young adults because they are such a wonderful audience, they are good readers, and they care about the books they read.

  

  Katherine Paterson
  • Good
  • Writing

• No, I'm not feminist. I'm not, not a feminist.

  

  Lily Rabe
  • Feminist

• I don't see myself as a crusading feminist filmmaker. Not at all. I have the luxury of coming from New Zealand and I've had moments in my life where being female is considered to be a tremendous advantage - emotionally, career-wise. Personally, I have nothing to prove. But I'm tremendously curious about human nature. Female life is so incredibly underexplored in cinema, so these stories feel very exotic.

  

  Nikola Jean Caro
  • Moments
  • Feminist
  • Female

• Directing films is incredibly exciting to me.

  

  Jason Bateman

• When I'm preparing for a swim, I imagine absolutely everything about it: the color of the water, how cold it is, the taste of salt in my mouth. I visualize each and every stroke.

  

  Lewis Gordon Pugh
  • Water
  • Color
  • Cold

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

  

  Jill Scott
  • Feminist