F. R. Scott Quotes
The world is my country, the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god, the future of man is my heaven.
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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With 'Dance Moms' in L.A., we film on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. When we film in Pittsburgh, we film the same days, but we still dance in our studio when we're not filming, so I'm dancing every day except Sunday.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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The 100m is never stressful.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.
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I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.
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The theory that Divine Providence does not extend to man, and that there is no difference between man and other animals, implies very bad notions about God; it disturbs all social order, removes and destroys all the moral and intellectual virtues of man.
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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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It was not necessary and might even have been disadvantageous for a government to claim a direct personal commission and communion of the kind God had given some rulers in the Old Testament. A working government might need the support of the Church but not of God Himself in a voice from on high.
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The world is my country, the human race is my race. The spirit of man is my god, the future of man is my heaven.
