Scott McCallum Quotes
I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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I think Twitter is best when it sparks conversations elsewhere. To use YouTube and Facebook and all the tools we have available to us today to respond and also promote and answer and engage is awesome.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
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Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.
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I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess that's fancy.
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Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
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I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I did some grouting.
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Opinions differ most when there is least scientific warrant for having any.
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No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honour, it has no word to keep. … Hitler is himself the nation. That incidentally is why Hitler always has to talk so loud, even in private conversation - because he is speaking with 78 million voices.
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One country, one constitution, one destiny.
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I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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Jon Tester needs to be held accountable for his extreme partisan liberal record of supporting President Obama's judicial nominees 99% of the time but then opposing President Trump's nominees.
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People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.
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I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.
