Scott Ian Quotes
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.
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In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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I have won 85 caps and have had a great career with Wales and have enjoyed every minute of it.
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Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
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Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
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I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
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I've always noticed a difference between working with a director and working with a writer/director. In how much they're invested and how specific they are.
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.
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I know that Bush, for political reasons, is going to nominate a minority, a Hispanic man or someone where it will be harder for people on the progressive side to oppose and split some of the traditionally progressive or democratic constituents.
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There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
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There's nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits in art were of ugly women. If you paint Brigitte Bardot, it's a disaster. Sunsets, you have to stay away from sunsets. You paint a sunset, you are in great danger.
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One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.
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I love all my fam. I have quite possibly the best dad, mom, and sister in the world.
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The way in which you endure that which you must endure is more important than the crisis itself.
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Some folks run from the doubt and go backward. You try for all the spiritual Band-Aids you can find... when actually, what you need to do is press forward, to accept those doubts and work through them.
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Even as a kid, if I would come across something cool in the record store, that would be how I found out about bands. It's kind of the same way these days. In a way even less because there are no record stores to go to anymore.
