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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Come one, come all! This rock shall fly from its firm base as soon as I.
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Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.
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Now it will take a long time to scale biofuels, but I'm the only one in the world forecasting oil dropping in price to $35 a barrel by 2030. I'll put it on the record: Oil will not be able to compete with cellulosic biofuels. If you do it from food, the food will get so expensive you can't make fuel out of it.
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People say, 'How can you stay in a play for a long time?' I say, 'The audience is never the same.'
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It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to merit, and part to a happy concurrence of circumstances in its favor. Had Caesar or Cromwell exchanged countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman.
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You can't put an age on power.
