Jill Scott Quotes

That's what I enjoy most about my music - that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own time.

Jill Scott

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I've got no ego; I just like to have thousands of people write to me and tell me how wonderful I am.

Jim Beaver

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Debt, we've learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains - pick your favorite: bankers, regulators, central bankers, politicians, overzealous consumers, credit rating agencies - but all require one similar ingredient to create a true crisis: too much leverage.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

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Poverty is not just a sad accident, but it's also a result of the fact that some people make a lot of money off low-income families and directly contribute to their poverty.

Matthew Desmond

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The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.

Michael Caine

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I think novels are profoundly autobiographical. If writers deny that, they are lying. Or if it's really true, then I think it's a mistake.

Amity Gaige

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In my writing, I want to address all communities, you know. I've spent many years talking about Chicano culture, Chicano history, and at the same time, I've also been in many communities and presented my work in many communities, in many classrooms, and that's where my vision is and my delight is and my heart is.

Juan Felipe Herrera

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With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again.

Joni Mitchell

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You don't want everyone to know everything about you.

Diego Luna

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I wanted to do Dreamgirls. If they're doing a stage production of Sparkle, I think that would be hot.

Deborah Cox

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As a matter of policy from the beginning with our team, there have been three things we've said we won't draft a player: if they've been involved in domestic violence, drug abuse, or if they show lack of respect for authority.

Bob McNair

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I am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because I am a casualty of a perennial war that is being fought between the oppressed Irish people and an alien, oppressive, unwanted regime that refuses to withdraw from our land.

Bobby Sands

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Shakespeare is a permanent presence in the English letters.

Antonio Munoz Molina

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