James Victor Scott (Jimmy Scott) Quotes
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The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
Zoe Kravitz -
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl Sagan -
Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
E. L. Doctorow -
Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
Calamity Jane -
I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
Nancy Lublin -
D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
Wanda Sykes
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
Vince Lombardi -
A lot of people are crazy, cruel and negative. They got a little too much time on their hands to discuss everybody else. I have a limited amount of energy to blow in a day. I'd rather read something that I like or watch a program I enjoy or ride my damn motorcycle or throw back a couple of shots of tequila with my friends.
Queen Latifah -
Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
Sam Abell -
Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
Adam Driver -
Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
Abu Bakar Bashir
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
Yakov Smirnoff -
Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
Ted Shackelford -
I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
Abigail Washburn -
Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives.
Damon Galgut -
The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.
Taylor Momsen -
I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too, but they have never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world with which I have no connection whatsoever.
Albert Einstein -
I experimented with my own one-man show a couple of years ago in Aspen when HBO used to have their comedy festival there. I called it 'A History of Me.'
Alan Zweibel -
But because kids today have so little free time, and because they’re always surrounded by media, they don’t explore what’s off the beaten path. They want their fun to be quick and easy. The art of being bored is lost.” . . . There’s no question that Klauber’s findings are.
Edward Hallowell -
I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.
Tom Stoppard -
'The qualities which produce the dogged, unbeatable courage of the British, personified at the time by Winston Churchill, can appear in other settings as stubbornness bordering on stupidity.'
Dean Acheson -
All I needed was the courage to be me. That courage took a lifetime to develop.
James Victor Scott