Scott McCallum Quotes
Well, Bill, I don't think you're going to find many shy people that are in the political business.
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When people first started watching UFC, it seemed like a no-holds barred event... early on it looked like all the fighters were crazy. Actually, there are a lot of techniques, and the reality shows have let people see the fighters behind the scenes.
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Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.
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I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights.
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I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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I just think that the Victoria's Secret girl values herself by the way she looks. And that might be linked with being healthy, but that's all it is, and it sets a negative example to other people.
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Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
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If you got a dope girl, there's going to be people that want her. But I don't know, I've always kept my 'A-game' on point. I just make a point to make sure the woman that I'm with is taken care of. You got to keep it new, so I go out of my way to make them feel special.
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We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.
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If you get criticized, good - I don't think people get criticized enough. People talk behind your back and they criticize you, but they don't often come up and say it to you.
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A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.
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If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.
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I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training.
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People really do spend a lot of money on their pets - sometimes more then themselves.
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Kumar Mangalam Birla is one of the most respected business persons.
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There's a hustling, but also a self-centred vibe you can get from people in Delhi.
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America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.
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When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English kept them from picking up what I thought were obvious signals.
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I still think of myself as from Illinois.
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The real deal is always going to win in the end.
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At the end of the day, I have a son.
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Well, Bill, I don't think you're going to find many shy people that are in the political business.
