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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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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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.
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Ever since I was 10 years old doing jiu-jitsu, I've done well against the tall guys.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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Knowledge is the life of the mind.
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The purpose of time management and getting more done in less time is to enable you to spend more face time with the people you care about and doing the things that give you the greatest amount of joy in life.
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It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.
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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.
