Campbell Scott Quotes
As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.
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We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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I love all things Christmas.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.
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Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?
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My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.
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The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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I'm not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no.
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I try to take each moment at a time.
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Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.
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Every entrepreneur talks about the passion you have for your work, and I think that's what's missing with a lot of women in business.
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In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest.
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As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.
