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Jill Scott Quotes

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Power Time Think Matter Individual

I think I was scared of the drag thing, as a lot of gay boys are. It's sort of knocked out of you in junior high. I wouldn't find guys who were very feminine attractive. Then, doing 'Hedwig,' I got to be man and woman, really butch and really femme at the same time, and I realized, this is kind of the ideal.

John Cameron Mitchell

Time Woman Man Think Doing You

There's something called, 'resolution authority,' which gives the government the power to takeover a failing bank - something they didn't have pre-Lehman Brothers.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Power Government Resolution Authority

I'm not a positive guy.

In the India I was growing up in, history wasn't really a wise career option. People would joke and say, 'History's okay, but what's your actual job?' I didn't come from a privileged background and couldn't afford to be irresponsible, so I did the pragmatic thing and did a MBA.

History Job Wise People Growing Up

I am a person who goes out without a purse.

Sigourney Weaver

I Am Person Without Out Purse Who

I had left everything because of my marriage. As a girl, I know what my responsibility towards my husband and his family is, and I used to do everything according to his will. I kept all his family members in mind, but he still expected more from me.

Family Marriage Girl Responsibility

When you have 20 nominations - 20 names on the nomination list of best actor, supporting actor and actress, etc., and there's absolutely no representation of color whatsoever, I think that's a subset of perhaps a bigger problem.

Best Color Think Problem You Actor

Our national-security strategy must drive our military budget, rather than the budget setting our strategy.

Drive Budget Strategy Military Must

I think I have an instinct of, like, the right record comes knocking at my door and says, 'Want to come out to play?' and I go.

Door Think Play Go Want Right

On tour, I don't drink, because I don't think in any other job you are supposed to get to work and drink whisky.

Work Job Think You Drink Get

I talk to people of different ages, and a guy who's 38 who says, 'I could've played Major League Baseball, but I had this knee injury...' Yeah, probably not. It's a big thing with men and sports, where they think they could have touched that thing.

Christopher Guest

Sports Men Baseball People Think

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

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