Scott Stossel Quotes

To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck--paddling, paddling, paddling.

Scott Stossel

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• The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

  

  Barbara Walters
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• Feminism remains something that needs to be explained to people.

  

  Rachel Cusk
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  • Something
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• The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.

  

  Fidel Castro
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• I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
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• Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.

  

  Hank Johnson
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• Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.

  

  Walter Gropius
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• My voice has always been kind of distinct - even when I was four years old, my mom told me that people would be like, 'Why does your daughter always sound like a chain smoker?' I've always had this deep, raspy voice.

  

  Banks
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• About 10,000 people a day go on first dates from Match... We're trying to celebrate that, bring those success stories to the forefront and make it even easier in our product to meet up at Starbucks.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Life
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• When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • People
  • Done
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• I'm still a student of fashion, but I like hooking up with the people that really know how to make cool clothes.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Up
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• If you're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies to anyone declaring themselves a 'God-fearing Christian' or a 'Man of the people.'

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • God
  • Man

• The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • People
  • Age
  • Photography

• When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either see it as an albatross or a calling card.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Want
  • Impact

• Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Me
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• Trading forces someone to think hard; those who merely work hard generally lose their focus and intellectual energy. In addition, they end up drowning in randomness; work ethics draw people to focus on noise rather than the signal.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• In his private dealings he was just. He treated friends and strangers, the rich and poor, the powerful and weak, with equity, and was beloved by the common people for the affability with which he received them, and listened to their complaints....

  

  Washington Irving
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  • Friends
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• I propose the immediate launching of a nuclear strike on the United States. The Cuban people are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the destruction of imperialism and the victory of world revolution.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • World
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• Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Man
  • Loved
  • Gentleman

• She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Time
  • She
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• I know I'm being judged, and anyone who works in the public eye will get some negativity at some point. It can be tough and it hurts. I can be very tough on myself. Occasionally, I hear or read something cruel and I'm shocked.

  

  Deborra-Lee Furness
  • Negativity

• I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • Time
  • Long
  • Love

• I never said I wanted to be around for a long time. I always said I wanted to be here for a good time.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck--paddling, paddling, paddling.

  

  Scott Stossel
  • People
  • May
  • Calm