Jill Scott Quotes

For my writing, and because I love talking to young women about life, I often asked them which would they rather have - a father in the house with them while growing up or a big butt? I tell you 86 percent of the time, girls say a big butt because it gets them further.

Jill Scott

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For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.

Joe Greene

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There are some beautiful books out there. But the ones that leave me cold are the ones where I feel - it's that postmodern thing - it's more experimentation with language than it is a deep compassionate falling into another human being's experience.

Andre Dubus III

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What I think is frustrating for Americans is that it feels like more was going to change with Obama.

John McEnroe

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Governor Kasich and I won't agree on everything, but agree we've got to control the rise in health care costs on all levels.

John Hickenlooper

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The tolling of yon dismal bell and the loud but solemn discharge of artillery hath announced to the nation the melancholy tidings - Thomas Jefferson no longer lives!

John Tyler

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My own skin-care ritual is quite simple and straightforward; I don't like a lot of fuss, surprisingly. My products are designed to make you look and feel better. I think there are a lot of men out there who want and need the same products.

Tom Ford

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I would hate people to think bossy is all I can do.

Judi Dench

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I really think that people's right to happiness shouldn't be dictated by some policymaker in Washington, D.C. I've come to know a lot of people that - sexual orientation is such where they're in love with people from the same sex, and I just don't think it's our role in the government to say, 'No you can't be married.'

Jon Tester

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I remember I used to sleep on my records. In a room with no furniture. I remember I used to sleep in my car.

DJ Khaled

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It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.

Christine Lahti

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The point of drinking in moderation is that sometimes you don't drink in moderation.

Artie Lange

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This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics.

William Vickrey

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