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.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Great
  • Career

• 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.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Time
  • Live
  • High

• Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Flower

• Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Never
  • Laws
  • Take

• 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.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Culture
  • Ideas
  • Moment

• 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.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Logic
  • Gracious

• People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• 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.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Day

• I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Never
  • Chance
  • Wanted

• We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Trying
  • Same
  • Self

• The show has become my therapy.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Show
  • Become
  • Therapy

• I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Kid
  • Brown
  • James

• I didn't appreciate how special and sometimes strange my CIA world was - until it suddenly and spectacularly ended in a newspaper column.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • World
  • Sometimes
  • Appreciate

• I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Sad

• An injured lion still wants to roar.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Lion
  • Wants
  • Still

• 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.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Me
  • Angry
  • Pleasure

• Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Time
  • Money
  • Desk

• There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.

  

  Walter Benjamin

• Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet, Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat.

  

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith
  • Life
  • Defeat
  • Meet

• Growing up doing those Kiwanis Clubs, doing those Cub Scout banquets, doing those church shows, I learned to find that sensibility that most people could laugh at - that all ages and demographics could laugh at.

  

  Jeff Dunham
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• I should say I am not much of a gamer - anymore. The reason for this is that I have to make a living, and my body requires vitamin D, and I've come to value the heady pleasures of human interaction over the temporary exhilaration of reaching the 'next level.'

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Value

• 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.

  

  Scott Thompson
  • Life
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