Gene Scott Quotes
Hey, this has been said before over the past century or so. But there's a survival instinct going on that is demonstrated on a small scale here.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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I was very obsessed with my music, and I think that, as a young girl, I really wanted to get into this business, and I don't think my parents really knew how to protect me.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so I do as much as I possibly can for our community and for our rights, so it's nice that everyone is supporting me as well.
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For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identities than other superheroes. No one ever says, 'Peter Parker was a nerdy kid. He can't possibly be Spider-Man, attract a good-looking gal, work in a newspaper, etc.' And no one gets hung up on whether his nerdiness is a disguise.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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I think Bolano had a generosity about him that was unique. He seemed to include so many people in the circle of his adventures, whereas I felt like I was pretty selfish.
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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
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'Anthem' was the record that almost didn't get made for a completely different reason than 'Underneath.'
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Color always vexed me because I would fight with the media I was using. I love coloring in Photoshop, and it's freed me to pursue ideas and techniques I wouldn't have otherwise attempted. Since I get to take an assignment from concept to final execution, I have more freedom in my idea-making processes.
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I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.
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I come from L.A. where there's a sense of show. But that's not a bad word in my mind. We say art 'show,' don't we? 'Show' implies entertainment.
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As awesome as it is to be with a big act and get three catered meals a day and get a dressing room with an actual shower in it, it's hard sometimes as a new artist to come across in 25 minutes. You get 25 minutes to hopefully impress these people. I think the longer set is more suitable for us and gives us an opportunity to connect better.
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
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In country music, one of the ways we may have gone wrong in the past is trying to be politically correct all the time.
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For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?
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Hey, this has been said before over the past century or so. But there's a survival instinct going on that is demonstrated on a small scale here.
