Jill Scott Quotes
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.
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Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to them? Are they not their heritage as well as yours?
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
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Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.
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I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
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New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Music is my balance... center of my life.
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A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
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Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.
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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
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I love just walking around New York. It's like a whole world in one place.
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The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds.
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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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Music shouldn't be a chore or feel like any kind of burden.
