Jill Scott Quotes

I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope and playing games. I think that's the first time I heard rhyming words - I don't know if I'd call that the definitive poetry, but that's when I heard rhyming words said and not necessarily sung.

Jill Scott

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I prefer to stay out of politics, really.

Roger Taylor

PoliticsOutStayReallyPrefer

It's very humbling to know that the industry has cast me as the greatest heel in the history of the business.

Roddy Piper

BusinessHistoryMeKnowIndustry

Once you put that muscle on, it's hard to go back down. Most guys, when they put that muscle on, they just stay big. To go back down while at the same time trying to maintain that punching power, it's very tough.

Roy Jones Jr.

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I could care less if someone is purple polka-dotted.

Michael T. Flynn

CareSomeonePurpleLessCould

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.

Michael Mandelbaum

MeAmericanYouFirstPolicyTask

For me, I'm a filmmaker because, above all, I'm an explorer. It's my way of exploring and investigating the problems, the questions, and the mysteries about what it means to be human that vex me most, that keep me up at night, and that, when I finally fall asleep, insinuate themselves into my dreams.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.

Donella Meadows

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I had never been so challenged in an airplane that I doubted the outcome.

Chesley Sullenberger

AirplaneNeverBeenOutcomeDoubted

There's no time, place, or purpose of a government shutdown or default.

Cory Gardner

TimePurposeGovernmentPlace

People called me a hoodlum and a thug. But they didn't tell you I was a carpenter, an architect, a stand-up comic - even a bartender. And a barbecue cook. But they didn't tell you that.

Bobby Seale

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I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine with porcini mushrooms, soft-shell crabs, spinach from the garden, and lemon tarts with fraises des bois for dessert.

Martha Stewart

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Baseball wasn't necessarily my first sport in terms of liking it. I'd never played baseball or softball growing up.

Kylie Bunbury

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