Scott Hamilton Quotes
When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.
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Practices were tough.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment!
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.
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I don't judge my characters.
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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
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When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.
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The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.
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Transsexualism is far less common than homosexuality, and the research is in its infancy. Scattered studies have looked at brain activity, finger size, familial recurrence, and birth order.
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The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as the GOP's. They are going to be painted as the bad guys.
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Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.
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People always ask: For whom does the poet write? He needs only to answer, For whom do you do good? Are you kind to your daughter because in the end someone will pay you for being?... The poet writes his poem for its own sake, for the sake of that order of things in which the poem takes the place that has awaited it.
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The kindest thing you can do for the people you care about is to become a happy, joyous person
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You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
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The Democratic Party has to be run by progressives... because we can't let another monster like Donald Trump win again... even if we seem impolite in our fight back against him.
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When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.
