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Jill Scott Quotes

Sometimes I feel like a Buddhist and I need to chant; sometimes a Baptist and I need to holler and shout; and sometimes I need to be a Catholic and need to purge my sins and confess. It just depends on where I am.

Jill Scott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 4, 1972

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I Am Feel Sometimes Need Where Just

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Virtue Conscience Sentinel

From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business.

Michael Beschloss

Business Beginning You Real Through

I realize that R&B is what I do best, and I'm comfortable with that.

Stephanie Mills

Best Comfortable Realize

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

Stan Getz

Better Musicians You Play Listen

On 'The Impossible,' I was taught how to act. Naomi Watts was there every day constantly teaching me. That was where I discovered I wanted to be an actor.

Tom Holland

Day Me Impossible Every Day Actor

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

Rudyard Kipling

Heart Long You Nothing Will Turn

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

Rumi

Power Present Devil Choice Desire

The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation of church and state so that the laws we live by our never guided by religious zeal.

Roxane Gay

Live Religion Government Practice

The insecurity that comes from being behind bars with, at best, imperfect oversight makes us all feel responsible only for ourselves. We end up either docile, apathetic, and unwilling to engage with each other, or hostile, angry, violent, and resentful.

Chelsea Manning

Best Angry Insecurity End Feel Up

People think I am the crazy person on stage, but I know how to relax.

Bruce Forsyth

I Am People Crazy Relax Think Know

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

Winston Churchill

More Battles Greater General He Won

Sense of smell, of course, is only one of those dog qualities that can't be replicated or improved upon. I've been researching dogs in warfare for my book about 'Rin Tin Tin,' and I've read many accounts of their heroics: carrying messages through battle, alerting troops to enemy planes, and even parachuting behind enemy lines.

Susan Orlean

Dog Book Battle Enemy Smell Dogs