James Victor Scott (Jimmy Scott) Quotes
Show business has always been my life. I love it. I've shared the ups and downs. So it will still be my life. It is a big piece of your life because this is all you know. It just seems like it takes you to such great heights in your life.James Victor Scott
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
Dan Pink -
As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
Aaron Koblin -
I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
Beck -
Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
G. Willow Wilson -
I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
W. H. Davies -
I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
Fleur East
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
Tammy Baldwin -
I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.
Dan Marino -
The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
Navjot Singh Sidhu -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
T.I. -
The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
Urjit Patel
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Kate Brown -
I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
Halima Aden -
I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.
Malik Jackson -
Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
Vik Muniz -
My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
Salman Rushdie -
My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
Ted Danson
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Kicked in the ribs, the press says 'art' when 'ouch' would be more appropriate.
Pauline Kael -
I have times when I doubt what I'm doing. When those moments hit, I think about how grateful I am to be able to do what I do every day. It was harder when I started because I didn't see the response, but now I'm out there playing for people and seeing them happy, which makes it all worthwhile.
Kimbra Lee Johnson -
If you want experiences to make you a better person, then you play two or three sports.
Jim Brown -
There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.
John Osborne -
The tea-kettle is as much an English institution as aristocracy or the Prayer-Book.
Catharine Beecher -
Show business has always been my life. I love it. I've shared the ups and downs. So it will still be my life. It is a big piece of your life because this is all you know. It just seems like it takes you to such great heights in your life.
James Victor Scott