James Victor Scott (Jimmy Scott) Quotes
As long as I could sing my songs, I wasn't as angry about what had happened, about being shoved back for this or shoved back for the other.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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All of the songs my grandparents and parents listened to are called boleros - they're all love songs. They're about giving your heart to a person. It's a culture that is so romantic and passionate, and that's something that I'm very proud of. We grew up with nothing, so we just want to live a life full of love.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!
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I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
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You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
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I pray every day and think everybody should.
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National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.
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I'll never believe I'm any older than 18. I get angry when my body can't do what an 18-year-old's does. And looking in the mirror is really a tragic sight. There are many consolations to getting older, but physically, it's quite unkind. I find that I have as much mobility, but it takes longer to get pretty.
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I've been teaching classes on memoirs since 1986, and I've been reading them all my life, and I think that I would like to write a critical book that might have some of those how-to elements in it.
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As long as I could sing my songs, I wasn't as angry about what had happened, about being shoved back for this or shoved back for the other.
