Jill Scott Quotes
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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I don't really remember much about Kosovo. I only remember growing up in London, where my parents had to basically start from scratch.
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I feel my knees changing - like, why do I have this pain when I'm running on the treadmill? What's going on with my lower back when I wake up in the morning? I just feel changes. And I'm definitely fearful in a very vain manner about my body ageing.
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Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
Alexander Chase -
I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.
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People feel that the EU is heading in a direction that they never signed up to. They resent the interference in our national life by what they see as unnecessary rules and regulation. And they wonder what the point of it all is. Put simply, many ask 'why can't we just have what we voted to join - a common market?'
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I love foods that start in my cheeks and then vibrate up.
