Jamila Woods Quotes

It's important to immerse myself in one thing at a time to do it well, but I could never do one thing only. I will always be a poet and a singer, because I'm interested in bending genres and pushing boundaries of what is considered a poem, what is considered a song.

Jamila Woods

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The fun thing about 'Chicago' is that there's so much dance and, very specifically, Roxie. So you might see a little bit of Roxie on the Sugarland stage. Who knows.

Jennifer Nettles

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If you approach economic policy with the spirit of compromise, you can actually get good support.

John Delaney

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I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors.

John Hench

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Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places.

John Searle

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There are people out there every day really fighting the fight for equal rights, equal pay, equal treatment. They're inspiring.

Amy Landecker

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After 'Where the Wild Things Are,' I guess I felt more confident as a writer.

Spike Jonze

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I love doing my 'Buried Treasure' show.

Tom Petty

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I think sports can bring a lot of happiness to people.

Miguel Cabrera

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Doing the simple thing first doesn't mean your solution will work forever.

Mike Krieger

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My mother was born in June and later, feeling a vacancy, chose her birth month for her middle name. Marry to marry, had kids because that's what was done. Liked crossword puzzles, liked lilac trees, liked baking in the sun, and liked Bing Crosby.

Judith Viorst

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I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures. It is not inhibited by flourish. It is a rhetorical society. It is a society of physical performance. It is a society of style.

Derek Walcott

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Taiwan is democratic.

Annette Lu

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