David Scott Quotes
America was magnificently characterized in November of 2008 when we elected, for the first time, an African-American President of the United States.
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I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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We just here to do our job.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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I've had this theory for a while, but I think there needs to be a message with the end of 'Game of Thrones.' You know? I think what needs to happen is ice and fire are going to go to war, a huge war between those two factions, and I think, in that war, they will destroy themselves. There will be complete chaos, complete destruction.
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Ultimately, all human beings fulfill their patterns. We're set in a certain archetype, and we fulfill that destiny.
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I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.
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Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery.
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I'm going to trust God that I'm not going to completely burn out, and that I'll have the energy in me to stay in it. Fortunately, I have really excellent people around me that are helping me.
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Tap into that one fear that drives greatness - the fear of regret.
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My mother did not want cancer to interfere with my life, as she knew it would eventually end hers.
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What was important wasn't the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time.
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America was magnificently characterized in November of 2008 when we elected, for the first time, an African-American President of the United States.
