Scott Coker Quotes
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I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
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What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
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I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.
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Since Kennedy's death, the nation has not seen, in any of his successors, his cosmopolitan intellectualism or the oratorical eloquence with which he sought to lead the nation by the power of his words.
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What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
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From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.
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I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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My dad had premature gray. I was always the one with the most energy, the one who continued to practice longer. I ran up and down the stairs of different stadiums. I didn't feel the need to cover up the fact that I was losing my hair or it was graying. When you're on a team, age is only a factor when you're talking in the locker room.
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Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.
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Very unusual in an insurgency to have absolutely no political agenda other than to return to power. Most insurgents have a political side to them.
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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money.
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Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.
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There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means losing their fortunes.
Garry Kasparov -
We live in an age which eschews sentimentality as if it were a good deal more than the devil. (Actually, of course, a writer may be just as sentimental in laying undue emphasis on sexual crimes as on dying mothers: sentimental, like scientific, is an adjective that relates to method, not to matter.)
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I don't even have an E-mail address. I have reached an age where my main purpose is not to receive messages.
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The poem, through candor, brings back a power again That gives a candid kind to everything.
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Corporations and special interests have their voice in Congress, and they have too many members scared of their power. What Congress needs is a progressive voice who is unafraid to take on these powerful interests - who is willing to fight for all Americans, not just the wealthiest 1 percent.
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Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.
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I have no idea what I want to do for a career. But in terms of my advocacy work, I'm definitely going to continue.
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Being a musician makes you very - musicians in general tend to be quite sensitive, I think, to the environment around them, which helps when you are trying to interact with others on screen, to be aware, to be sensitive, and to try to understand what's going on in the scene.
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You can't put an age on power.
