Bobby Scott Quotes

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• Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Together
  • Bring
  • Heal

• You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Time
  • Music
  • Interesting

• Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Time
  • Hate
  • Inspire

• The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Time
  • Family
  • Society

• There are certain things women are better at than men.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Men
  • Women
  • Better

• I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Want
  • Audience
  • Meaning

• Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • People
  • Trying
  • City

• It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • You
  • Someone
  • Ready

• The dissolution of the Party - we will not let such a tremendous, big, and glorious party be so easily crashed: this would then be the moment, when we would begin to fight on all fronts.

  

  Otto Bauer
  • Party
  • Moment
  • Fight

• The president's very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it be natural or a terrorist attack, there's only one part of our entire government, state or local, that is equipped to handle it, and that's the U.S. military.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • You
  • Government
  • Military

• I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • People
  • Society
  • Know

• I love Romney. It is not his fault that he is the son of a successful governor and makes $20 million a year.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Son
  • Successful
  • Million

• It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Business

• The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Reason
  • Process
  • Results

• In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Fact
  • Nuclear
  • Soap

• With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • Society
  • Years
  • Democratic

• I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Eyes

• I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Design
  • Movies
  • Costumes

• If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Truth
  • Mistakes
  • Astray

• Justice will be servedAnd the battle will rageThis big dog will fightWhen you rattle his cage.And you'll be sorry that you messed withThe U.S. of A.'Cause we'll put a boot in your ass,It's the American way.

  

  Toby Keith
  • American
  • Justice
  • Dog

• It's what I call 'mental masturbation', when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Exercise

• After a few weeks of this she'd spend a whole day weeping, beating at herself as if on fire.

  

  David Foster Wallace
  • She
  • Fire

• There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

  

  Bobby Scott
  • Fire
  • Volunteer