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?

Scott Pelley

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• You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Money
  • Better
  • Rich

• 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.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Live
  • Family

• 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.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Music
  • Broken
  • Down

• 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.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Will
  • Breath
  • Last

• As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Different
  • You
  • Person

• Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Fun
  • Lose
  • Losing

• 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.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Poor
  • Insulting

• The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Change
  • Acceptance
  • Step

• 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!

  

  Lance Gross
  • Work
  • Done
  • Why

• 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.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • House
  • Mom
  • Kitchen

• 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.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Age
  • Past
  • Culture

• Sometimes the storyline is as simple as, 'We're just going to be the best, and we're going for the championships.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Simple
  • Best
  • Sometimes

• We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • World
  • Country
  • Strong

• I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Day
  • Brand
  • Queen

• 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.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • World
  • Children
  • Environment

• My first lead role was probably 'Party Girl' in 1994.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Girl
  • Party
  • First

• My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • History
  • Marriage

• Dead people never seem to address the obvious - the things you'd think they'd be bursting to talk about, and the things all of us not-yet-dead are madly curious about. Such as: 'Hey, where are you now? What do you do all day? What's it feel like being dead? Can you see me? Even when I'm on the toilet? Would you cut that out?'

  

  Mary Roach
  • People

• I used to wear sleeveless T-shirts all the time on court, but now I've got a brand new look - I've moved on to polo shirts. Sleeveless T-shirts give you real freedom of movement and they keep you cooler in matches, but I just thought it was time for a change.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Time
  • Real
  • Freedom

• I actually feel, when I get to about page 200, that it's going to be a book after all! It never gets easier - when you conquer one problem, another one rises up to take its place.

  

  Marcia Muller
  • Up
  • Book

• Age is just reality we create for ourselves.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Age
  • Reality
  • Create

• 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?

  

  Scott Pelley
  • People
  • Want
  • Wonder