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.

Campbell Scott

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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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  • Want
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  • Seem

• The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Problem
  • Being
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• How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Alone

• 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.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Me
  • Present

• 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.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Want
  • Science

• I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Live
  • Done
  • Know

• Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • War
  • You
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Time
  • Work
  • Help

• I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • You
  • Easy
  • Gift

• To me, success is choice and opportunity.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Success
  • Opportunity
  • Choice

• People don't slip. Time catches up with them.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Up
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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.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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• When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do my modern, and I couldn't do it. They asked me if I had a song prepared, and I said 'No,' so I sang 'Happy Birthday.' And I did a reasonable improvisation, a reasonable one, nothing special at all. I don't know how I got in, but I did.

  

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  • Happy
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• I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.

  

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  • Rather
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• It's sore, but that's what I expected. I knew that once I missed the road trip that I was going to try to go the first game back. We had a couple of days off and I had a chance to practice once, so I'll be ready to go tomorrow.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Game
  • Couple
  • Practice

• The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Work
  • Job
  • Success

• The more truth you can get into any business, the better. Let the other side know the defects of yours, let them know how you are to be satisfied, let there be as little to be found as possible (I should say nothing), and if your business be an honest one, it will be best tended in this way.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Business
  • Truth

• Why would anybody not own a gun?

  

  Joe Manchin
  • Why
  • Gun

• 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.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Business
  • Job
  • Think