James Victor Scott (Jimmy Scott) Quotes
I'm a cereal lover. I could eat it in the morning, in the evening, and at night - I love Cheerios.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good lefty hitter; he's hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you're more likely to have a better outcome.
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I would like to have my gun for protection.
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You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
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I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor.
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I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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I want to keep acting. I'll be acting probably until I get a lot older.
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I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.
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If the thing you wish to do is right, and YOU BELIEVE IN IT, go ahead and do it! Put your dreams across, and never mind what 'they' say if you meet with temporary defeat, for 'they' perhaps, do not know that every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
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Approaching the treadmill I tell myself, 'Okay, it's just 10 minutes, after that you can get off the thing'. That's no time at all.
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So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill.
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I had no specific belief except that our cause was just, was very strong and it was winning more and more support.
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It was step by step that I earned my way into the lives and hearts of people by giving them recordings that I grew to love and as I found my listening audience also grew to love.
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I'm a cereal lover. I could eat it in the morning, in the evening, and at night - I love Cheerios.
