James Victor Scott (Jimmy Scott) Quotes

As a singer, I've been criticized for sounding feminine. They say I don't belong in any category, male or female, pop or jazz. But early on, I saw my suffering as my salvation.

James Victor Scott

• Suffering

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

  

  Ice T
  • Live
  • Mother
  • Father

• Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Good
  • Fantasy
  • Only

• Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.

  

  Yuri Andropov
  • Industry
  • Modern
  • Slow

• I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Together
  • Day
  • End

• The student will try to defy the master. Always.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Always
  • Try
  • Student

• From Texas to New Hampshire and everywhere in between, we know that support for policies such as expanded background checks continue to be popular in both parties.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Know
  • Support
  • Popular

• Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • Loving
  • Preaching

• I've been lucky enough to play roles that are not just the preppy cheerleader or sullen emo girl. I've been able to play roles that are really vast and varied and very three-dimensional. Fingers crossed that it remains the same.

  

  Tara Lynne Barr
  • Girl
  • Same
  • Lucky

• In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Moving

• Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Guy
  • Food
  • Change

• The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Day
  • Strange
  • Once

• When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Red
  • Loves
  • Cares

• I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Travel
  • Luxury
  • Cuddling

• You're blessed if you have the strength to work.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Work
  • Blessed
  • Strength

• My original aim after 'The X Factor' was to earn enough money in a year to make the whole experience worth it - you know, buy a car, a flat.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Car

• So if I get pegged as a bikini girl, that's fine, and that can still translate into acting or other areas. But, no, I don't wanna be doing bikini shoots my whole life.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Acting

• Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Baby
  • Worthy
  • Boom

• I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
  • Think
  • Single

• You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there's a loss in a family.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Family
  • Suffering
  • Loss

• For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Why
  • Suffering
  • Sin

• Alice In Chains: Love, Sex, Pain And Suffering... Interview conducted by Ian McFarlane in 1991

  

  Layne Staley
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Sex

• If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence - yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • World
  • Real
  • Done

• Fifty percent of the weight of the soybean is protein. And what a protein! No other protein that we've known comes so nearly to the basic protein of animals and humans as soybean protein.

  

  Percy Julian

• As a singer, I've been criticized for sounding feminine. They say I don't belong in any category, male or female, pop or jazz. But early on, I saw my suffering as my salvation.

  

  James Victor Scott
  • Suffering