Scott Ellis Quotes
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I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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One way to ensure that all kids will be successful in school and life is by focusing on literacy by the end of the third grade.
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As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
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There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!
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Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was enough, or an interval of a few hours, or a routine change of place, for an everyday event with a lyrical value that I did not sense at the time, to become suddenly adorned with a radiant echo, the echo ordinarily reserved only for those memories which have been standing for many years in the powerful fixative of lyrical oblivion.
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I grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music.
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Death and life are, for most of us, too complex to comprehend, but Alex Lemon can pretty casually, accurately, and marvelously correlate them to heavy metal and birthday cake.
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Science is agnostic when it comes to god; not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly; just agnostic.
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Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more fit to live than a worm squirming on the pavement after a hard summer rain.
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The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many pictures with the hope that some will be good.
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I think it's the things we don't talk about that make us old before out time.
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Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.
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It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.
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The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the organized efforts of ordinary men. Science is as old as the race, but the effective organization of science is new. Ancient science, like placer mining, was a pursuit of solitary prospectors. Nuggets of truth were found, but the total wealth of knowledge increased slowly. Modern man began to transform this world when he began to mine the hidden veins of knowledge systematically.
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Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against them.
