Jill Scott Quotes
People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else's blessings.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.
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Successful economies in the modern world are not sheepish about the power and responsibility of the state.
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I don't like narrowing my readers down - there's not a particular age or gender or nationality. I suppose I'm aiming at the child I was.
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Not only do I admire Jordan's accomplishments and his phenomenal basketball ability, but also the way he has conducted himself on and off the court. I don't think there will ever be another player to have the same impact on the game of basketball as Michael Jordan.
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I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
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People is, I think, it's their nature - some people's nature, in a way, to be angry or jealous or just spiteful about somebody else's blessings.
