Jill Scott Quotes
I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity, we ate romantically by candlelight.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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I sleep a lot on Sunday. It's really great.
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I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
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I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
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The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.
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I don't read the critics.
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Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.
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Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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Remember, MTV would only show white videos for a long time. Can you imagine that? That was the '80s when that happened. It's hard to even think of that now, you know?
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We want the city back on its feet. We want to have jobs for the city.
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For the longest time, I was trying to be DJ Shadow, I think. But I slowly developed my own style. It was trial and error, for sure.
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Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.
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People ask my mother whether she had any idea that I'd be CEO of a company some day, and she would say, 'Absolutely not. Totally out of the realm of possibility.' There was certainly nothing that would have been very predictable in my upbringing.
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'You don't go by odds. You know what's coming. You've seen the cards already.' She studied his face intently. 'No, you can't be cold-decked. It wouldn't be possible.'
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I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity, we ate romantically by candlelight.
