Jill Scott Quotes
'Saturday Night Live' is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.
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I've never been a partier.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable.
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Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
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I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just... 'boom!'
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Golf and dating don't mix.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
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We can enhance democracy by making it in line with its original vision. Read the dollar bill - E pluribus unum, out of many, one; novus ordo seclorum, a new order of the ages. That's democracy.
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If a girl comes on strong and says, 'I really dig your body and I want to f**k the sh*t out of you,' I just decide whether or not I like her. If I do take her home, I try to make sure I get just as much out of it as she does. The word exploited therefore wouldn't apply.
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Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord.
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What is stronger in us — passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?
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Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.
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'Saturday Night Live' is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.
