Scott Turow Quotes

I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.

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• I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Nature
  • Actor
  • Africa

• It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • People
  • Fall
  • Easy

• In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • English
  • First
  • Birthday

• For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Couple

• When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • Up
  • College
  • Journey

• Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Alive
  • Jazz
  • Progressive

• It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Couple
  • Missing

• What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me – cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Fear
  • Interesting
  • Question

• I don't know anything about music.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Music
  • Know
  • Anything

• Before you start a business, careful planning is in order to obtain to where you ought to be. The biggest part is to ensure that, once you might have created your own plan, that you simply take motion. Without motion, you are unable to succeed.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Start
  • Planning

• I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Stars
  • Noticed
  • Especially

• Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • World
  • May

• When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • You
  • Come
  • Detour

• Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave and cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Distance

• Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…It makes them spoon-fed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Truth
  • Help

• What goes up can continue.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Up

• Where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes.

  

  Imre Lakatos

• All sense of dialectics is lost when someone believes that today’s economy is identical to the economy 50 or 100 or 150 years ago, or that it is identical to the one in Lenin’s day or to the time when Karl Marx lived. Revisionism is a thousand miles away from my mind and I truly revere Marx, Engels and Lenin.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Today

• In the old days, 'controversial' in a relationship meant same-sex or mixed races.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Relationship
  • Sex
  • Old

• Mobile is a seaport town, and we ate a lot of seafood. We'd go fishing, we'd catch our fish and we'd eat our fish. It was a ritual on Saturday morning for all my family - my grandfather, my brothers, my uncles, my father - to go fishing, and then the ladies of the family would clean the fish and fry them up.

  

  Billy Williams
  • Up
  • Family
  • Father

• Two of my grandparents died in a car crash. Sucks, 'cause they would have lived to a hundred.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • Car
  • Grandparents

• Foreign universities have two aspects - content and brand. If we focus on the brand, we could lose out on the content. The idea is to focus on the content.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Focus
  • Brand
  • Content

• And to me it seems that you have fallen asleep upon a white rock, and in a parish of dreams, and have dreamt all this in a moment while it was night.

  

  Anatole France
  • Night
  • Rock

• I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.

  

  Scott Turow
  • Law
  • Student
  • Mess