Scott Thompson Quotes
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, that's it.
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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To properly investigate a subject, we must investigate a subject's stuff.
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One day during filming, George Clooney was wearing his surf shirt and board shorts, and my six-year-old daughter was in the background as an extra, playing in the sand - playing herself. She and Clooney suddenly looked equally Hawaiian, equally related to the place I call home.
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'War and Peace' goes down a lot smoother than a Dan Brown novel, let me tell you.
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America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. By trying to seize far more power than is necessary over American citizens, the federal government is destroying its own legitimacy. We face a choice not of anarchy or authoritarianism, but a choice of limited government or unlimited government.
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I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I guess that sort of stayed with me, really. But also, for me, from the time I was, like, 10 years old, all I ever wanted to do was be in a band and make music.
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If comedy duos don't like each other, it just won't work.
