James Victor Scott (Jimmy Scott) Quotes
I was born with Kallmann syndrome. I have never complained about it, as I can't do anything to change it - and I wouldn't have acquired the voice that I have.
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I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
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I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms. I love hotel rooms. I just write wherever I am whenever I need to write.
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You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.
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My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.
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Apart from its famous healing properties, manuka has a strong, woody flavour.
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Actually, one of the better indicators historically of how well the stock market will do is just a Gallup poll, when you ask Americans if you think it's a good time to invest in stocks, except it goes the opposite direction of what you would expect. When the markets going up, it in fact makes it more prone toward decline.
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The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.
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I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.
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I've been dancing since I was seven, but I never really developed a regimen until I was on Broadway and responsible for a professional performance every night.
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Mums ask me how to get their husbands off the couch as well as asking me to marry them. But kids ask me to get their mums and dads to play with them more as well.
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Being productive gives people a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that loafing never can.
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There's so much active misinformation and it's packaged very well and it looks the same when you see it on a Facebook page or you turn on your television. If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect.
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[T]here is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it.
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Eve was not a born know-all. She was ignorant. But she was a good learner.
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Well, I have gotten by twenty-seven years, so that is something. I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die. Onward to the Republic and liberation of our people.
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It is always a challenge to work when people have big expectations. I would much rather feel comfortable working without expectations.
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I was born with Kallmann syndrome. I have never complained about it, as I can't do anything to change it - and I wouldn't have acquired the voice that I have.
