Scott Stossel Quotes
Somehow, in many of those near-miss instances, I've managed to fight through and continue. But in all these situations, even when they're apparently going well, I feel I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
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The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.
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As is the case for many people with multiple sclerosis, the effects of weakened limbs, spasticity and fatigue had cut my working life in half. Yet not a single GP, neurologist or nurse, and none of the MS websites, had mentioned the use of neuroenhancers for the treatment of neurological fatigue.
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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I have vitamins I intend to take to be a better person. I even have a pillbox for them to remind myself to be healthier. But will I take them? Definitely not.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
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I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.
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In the urgent aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, with more attacks thought to be imminent, analysts wanted to use 'contact chaining' techniques to build what the NSA describes as network graphs of people who represented potential threats.
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I'm very happy for the Contreras family. They're out. Now they've got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry.
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If it's going to go my way, it's going to go my way. I have to keep working hard.
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I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.
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You can't back-engineer a brand.
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The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.
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The art world is a jungle echoing to the calls of vicious jealousies and ruthless combat between dealers and collectors; but I have been walking in the jungles of business all my life, and fighting tooth and nail for pictures comes as a form of relaxation to me.
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Failure: the renewable resource.
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Somehow, in many of those near-miss instances, I've managed to fight through and continue. But in all these situations, even when they're apparently going well, I feel I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.
