Scott Bakula Quotes
Being an actor opened doors for me to explore my emotions as different people and characters, and expand my own inner soul.
Quotes to Explore
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We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.
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If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.
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Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.
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Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.
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The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
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I've been fortunate to work with some really smart people. Larry Page is an extremely smart guy, most probably one of the smartest people I've worked with.
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You do not defend a world that is already lost.
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Sometimes, when you go to airport and look at the people, you see the worst looks - but the worst looks can give you more ideas than the best looks.
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Listen, if the people in my district wanted to live in France, they'd move to France.
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The trouble with writing for the web is that writing is about getting people to forget they're reading. Anything that reminds them they are reading, or which annoys or distracts them, bounces them out of the world. And the web, it seems to me, is all bounce. A very, very difficult medium to write for.
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The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.
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I've never really read any books about Washington, neither the politics nor the city.
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Being an actor opened doors for me to explore my emotions as different people and characters, and expand my own inner soul.
