Scott Thompson Quotes
When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.
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I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
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The show has become my therapy.
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I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.
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I didn't appreciate how special and sometimes strange my CIA world was - until it suddenly and spectacularly ended in a newspaper column.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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An injured lion still wants to roar.
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
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And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?
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Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, anymore than anything else important in life can be proved.
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I am very proud of being Jewish. I went to a Jewish school all my life.
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Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
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There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.
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When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me.
