Jill Scott Quotes

I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.

Jill Scott

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Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

Max Carver

ChangeCommunityEmpathyAction

I'm getting less and less interested in the problems of youth. I'm much more interested in the idea of emotional paralysis, and I find myself less interested in work that doesn't have anything to do with a conversation about the world.

Anna D. Shapiro

WorkMyselfYouthWorldProblems

Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.

Jeanette Winterson

MeListeningCreateSaidNeedBeing

My father's family hails from Banaras. My grandfather taught mathematics at Banaras Hindu University. Banaras is also dedicated to Lord Shiva, home to one of the great jyotirlings, the Kashi Vishwanath temple.

Amish Tripathi

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Regardless of the success of a drama or film, I will be satisfied if viewers say that my acting has progressed and has gained more depth.

Song Hye-kyo

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People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.

Steven Pinker

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We have to be evangelists for music. We couldn't just be high priests of music.

Simon Rattle

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I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became an academic and got my Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. I didn't set out to be a businessperson.

Rodney Brooks

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Making jokes is about the most wrong and stupid thing a bemused, middle-aged, white heterosexual Anglo Saxon sort of Celt Australian male can do these days.

Michael Leunig

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A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot.

Milos Zeman

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I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.

Denzel Washington

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I was lucky enough to make four Bond films. It finished in rather shambolic fashion, but I have no bitterness, no resentment.

Pierce Brosnan

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