Jill Scott Quotes
Once I started looking for a record deal, I had a trainer. And the trainer told me that I would never sell a record if I didn't lose weight.Jill Scott
Quotes to Explore
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When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.
Carl Jung -
We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.
Radhanath Swami -
The historian is a prophet looking backward.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.
Illeana Douglas -
When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be an exchange student to a small town in Argentina called Goya.
Patrick Wang
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
Kaskade -
The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.
Pat Robertson -
I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.
Larry Wilmore -
I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.
Fiona Apple -
This ain't a football game, we do this every day.
Earl Weaver -
In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.
Garrett Hardin
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I love family films. Of course, as a mother who has to watch so many movies, you really appreciate it when somebody makes a film that is for everybody - family entertainment that's really for the family, where everyone has a good time.
Salma Hayek -
For me, it works to my advantage when people think I'm stupid. If somebody who disdains you or wants to control you underestimates you, you can play their game right back.
Veronica Webb -
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.
Salman Rushdie -
When we consider carefully what many of our so-called humanists stand for, we find that they are not humanists but humanitarians.
Irving Babbitt -
'I am afraid', replied Elinor, 'that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.'
Jane Austen
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You can play a shoestring if you're sincere.
John Coltrane -
The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.
Riccardo Muti -
The changes in thinking about same-sex marriage have come slowly at first and then in rapid course. If such change is possible in this area, is it also possible in the vexed and sordid realm of race relations?
Barack Obama -
But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.
Plutarch -
I can't remember life before I was an actor. In fact, I was an actor before I knew what it was to be an actor.
Kellie Martin -
Once I started looking for a record deal, I had a trainer. And the trainer told me that I would never sell a record if I didn't lose weight.
Jill Scott