Scott Speedman Quotes

I went to the University of Toronto for a year, and I'm always trying to get across what university is really like.

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• I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Believe
  • Journey
  • Computers

• The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Focus
  • Safety
  • Uncertainty

• As technology breaks down the physical barriers of college campuses, the extraordinary intellectual capital of the educator community is becoming available to anyone committed to learning - regardless of age, income or location.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Age
  • Community
  • College

• I had no interest in high school besides art.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • School
  • Art
  • High

• You've got to make it a good example for those kids regardless of how much you mess up.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Up
  • Good
  • Kids

• I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • People
  • Want
  • Words

• In our sport, there's only two people, so if you're not winning, then you're losing.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Winning
  • Losing

• It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!

  

  Sally Ride
  • Sleep
  • Easy
  • Be Careful

• The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Society
  • Language
  • Achieve

• People are more interested in reading bombastic ideas, whether they're positive or negative. Part of me has sort of lost interest in doing criticism because of that. I've always realized that criticism is basically autobiography. Obviously in my criticism, it's very clear that it's autobiography, but I think it's that way for everybody.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Lost
  • Reading

• Cisco has never and will never work with a foreign government of any type for the purpose of restricting political speech.

  

  Charles Giancarlo
  • Work
  • Political
  • Government

• The sign on the bar said: 'girls- topless, bottomless', I went inside and there was nobody there!

  

  Jack Roy
  • Sing
  • Inside
  • Topless

• The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Beautiful
  • Justice

• Look at who people are elevating and deifying in the public eye, and ask yourself what those people have done to receive such lauding and what it is they haven't. When you look at that you say, okay, are these people being revered for something of merit, or are they completely hallow? Or even worse, are they being revered for something that is actually destructive?

  

  David Paden Marchand AFI
  • People
  • Done
  • Eye

• If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Belief

• Lead a life of your own design, on your own terms -not one that others, or the environment have scripted for you.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Environment
  • Design
  • Term

• Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

  

  Tony Snow
  • Politics
  • Affairs
  • Topography

• The established order has too many self-protecting economic entities, and not enough people who yet understand what it takes to change.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Change
  • Economic entities

• The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.

  

  Norman Angell
  • Man
  • Service
  • Uncommon

• Schools of journalism at exemplary American research universities, where the academic disciplines still coexist, are positioned to draw upon the full intellectual and educational resources of the university environment to help produce the skilled, responsible, expert, knowledgeable and highly proficient journalism leaders that our society-indeed the world-has need of, especially in these complex and challenging times, ... Our democracy depends on journalism to keep its institutions challenged and responsive to the public's needs, and the quality of the profession demands the best a university can offer.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • World
  • American
  • Help

• Wasn't there some statistic somewhere she'd read, about where most people meet their spouse, that claimed weddings were the third most popular place, after university and the work place. she was sure that she had. something to do with all that romantic optimism in the air, and too much champagne, no doubt.

  

  Elizabeth Noble
  • Air
  • Optimism
  • University

• I went to the University of Toronto for a year, and I'm always trying to get across what university is really like.

  

  Scott Speedman
  • University