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 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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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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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.
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In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.
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No step taken in faith is wasted, not by a God who makes all things new.
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Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium.
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Each must the other take as sign, short sign To stop the whirlwind, balk the elements.
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I was about 28-29 when I wrote my first story, and that was called 'The Garden of Abdul Gasazi.'
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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.
