Scott McCallum Quotes
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.
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It's helpful to have a handbag that's a bit crazy, or shoes that have kiwis on them or something, because it distracts.
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They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.
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When I first came in the business, I had a couple of close calls on planes going to London for shows. There was one time where the plane had to fly around until a storm ended, and then we started having a question about fuel, so we had to go through the storm. It was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. That really messed me up.
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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.
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I don't think that coming from a privileged background makes you this monster who doesn't feel things.
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We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.
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You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.
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I do not like people writing songs and then other people singing them. A lot of people don't even sing their own songs anymore. It's like producers these days have ghost producers; 'I don't produce, but I am a producer.'
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I support anyone finding their worth despite being told they can't do something.
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That's why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
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I don't think I'm an outsider at all.
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There's a lot of stress involved when your house is underwater.
