Jill Scott Quotes
Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.
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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.
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When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because 'Badlands' is a very futuristic record - and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do!
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I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.
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I've enjoyed all the work I've done, and I feel quite lucky that I haven't been playing sweet girls all the time.
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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.
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A film's success does not depend on box office collection and the number of days it was screened but on the amount of satisfaction an actor can draw from it.
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Behavioral economics can explain some things, but it's hard to explain a lot of the underlying processes that generate these decisions, much less some of these unconscious things that we don't have a handle on at all.
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I'm a guy's guy. I don't comb my hair unless I have to, and I don't use lotions or fancy shampoos.
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When you are older, you want to be around people you admire, even in their personal lives.
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Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.
