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Jill Scott Quotes

When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Mother Me Growing Up Growing

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

Time Long Long Time Buying Been

After spending the 1980s building up Saddam's Iraq as a counterweight to Iran, U.S. policy abruptly reversed course with his invasion of Kuwait and has since tried to cut him down to size. The policy is called 'containment,' but the question is, containment of what?

Michael Ignatieff

Building Down Question Him Size Up

You learn very quickly what people are so enamored with, and it's not necessarily me.

Amanda Seyfried

People Me Learn You Very Quickly

Not one day of my mother's adult life passed without some critical demand on her maternal role, without some urgent response from her.

Rosemary Mahoney

Life Mother Day One Day Without Her

Right now, when we're hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been - and will always be - our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

Strength Diversity Pride Remember

When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.

Music Age Night Enough Go Old

There is no benefit to the conservative sinner in being a conservative. There is great benefit to the liberal sinner in being a liberal.

Great Conservative Liberal Sinner

To hit bottom is to fall from grace.

Grace Fall Bottom Hit

Often, women as little girls are sent off on a track for them to live a perfect life and be a perfect woman. Not for boys, who can be themselves with their mood and their temper.

Life Women Live Woman Little Girls

Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs.

Good Create Will Oil Wildlife

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

Trust Eye Negotiate Every Agent

Art should not be bound by barriers or language. The Hindi film industry is a testament to that. We speak only Hindi, but we premiere in Germany and Japan. Our films do phenomenally well there. We transcend the barriers of language and culture. We welcome you in. I think that's what art should be, and I hope America reaches that place.

Priyanka Chopra

Hope Art Culture Welcome Think You

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