John Scarlett Quotes
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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History's a resource.
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If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.
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Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.
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There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody.
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Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.
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I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.
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All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.
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I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
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Societal good comes first for me.
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'This Means War' is up there with 'Hail to the King' in terms of crowd reaction and kids chanting for it.
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I'm not particularly good at running things when once they get to a certain level. Once it gets routine, get me out of the way.
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I was involved with some great things in television that I could never have done in film.
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There are certain functions that a writer has to do. In a time of crisis, it is great to have heroic poems, as it was in the Irish Revolution. It's great to have great songs, because people need something to sing when they are marching. That's OK, but it should be on the side. It's not the ultimate thing.
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The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.
