Scott Pelley Quotes
I wonder at what point do you stop doing what you think is right and you start doing what the majority of the American people want?
Quotes to Explore
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
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I met Tyler Perry and we did 'House of Payne' and a movie. We've done a couple other films since then, but it all boils down to the work. I'm a work-a-holic, which is why I think that I've been successful. If you tell me no, I'll work even harder!
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Both me and Ishmeet were very naughty. We used to have my grandfather's swords in the house. We used to take all these swords and take all the showpieces Mom had and slice them one by one. He actually locked my nana in the kitchen once for two hours.
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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
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Sometimes the storyline is as simple as, 'We're just going to be the best, and we're going for the championships.
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We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.
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I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.
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Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our society, but in the bigger picture, it is ultimately about freedom. We are living in a time where public space has become a commodity for corporations to control and dictate what is seen and heard.
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My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.
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I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.
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I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
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I study my fans all the time, and what I learn from them will definitely be reflected in my future work.
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We're very good at telling what happens and showing people while it happens... But sometimes television fails to take the time to say 'Why did it happen? What does it mean?' - To step back a little bit.
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At the end of the day, I am not my dad and have my own journey to make.
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I wonder at what point do you stop doing what you think is right and you start doing what the majority of the American people want?
