Jill Scott Quotes

I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me.

Jill Scott

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So once I thought of the villain with a sense of humor, I began to think of a name and the name "the Joker" immediately came to mind. There was the association with the Joker in the deck of cards, and I probably yelled literally, 'Eureka!' because I knew I had the name and the image at the same time.

Jerry Robinson

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I must have women - there is nothing unbends the mind like them.

John Gay

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Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

Maya Lin

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Most salespeople would like to think of themselves as being rock stars, but they don't display the talent to match their definition.

Jeffrey Gitomer

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I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.

Jeff Ament

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History is like Santa Claus: a language construction. We have some registers about the existence of Santa and history - the presents under the tree, the archives - but none have really seen them.

Alvaro Enrigue

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If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated.

Martin O'Malley

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If I have to try and write one more country single, I'll lose my mind.

Michelle Branch

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The stupidity of militarized fences between two worlds is a metaphor for all the things that divide us as human beings.

Luis Alberto Urrea

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So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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If my hands get cold, I'll go inside to warm them up and basically never come back out. I'm a little wimp.

Chloe Kim

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I'm a Brooklyn-born, Queens-raised, Manhattan-honed New York gal who entered college with only the vaguest ideas about what was coming next.

Bonnie Hammer

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