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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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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I really like working with unique and unknown artists, as they usually bring something fresh to a song.
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I think open source is an evolutionary idea for humanity, this idea of transparency. It played out for us in the technology world, but it also played out with the idea of a truth and reconciliation commission and Wikipedia.
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(You'd be surprised who'll hang an electric chair in the living room. Especially if the background matches the drapes.)
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When I was young, I reached a point where I found myself unable to pray. I was devastated by it. I missed being able to say words in my head that I believed could be heard by a being, a consciousness outside me. That is when I turned to poetry.
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I had only planned to strike the gong violently in order to somehow shake people up and make them more aware. I think I succeeded.
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So I started to learn guitar right away.
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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.
