Stuart Scott (Stuart Orlando Scott) Quotes

When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live.

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• I turned down a lot of films.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Down
  • Films
  • Lot

• Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • World
  • Children
  • Compassion

• A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Innovation
  • Selfish

• If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.

  

  Edmund White
  • America
  • Today
  • Desire

• Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Universe

• I drink a gallon of water a day.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Day
  • Water
  • Drink

• These people are fascinated by me, but I haven't done anything.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • People
  • Done
  • Me

• I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • People
  • Important
  • Questions

• We are a motivated team, and there is nothing that can stop us from winning the title. Even if I had lost, my teammates would have made up for it.

  

  Ma Long
  • Up
  • Team
  • Lost

• The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• People say, 'He doesn't want to be a spokesperson for the gay community.' I do, of course I do, but I want to be a spokesperson for everyone. Ya know, straight people, gay people, bisexual. I don't want it to be limited.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Want
  • Community

• I do not preach universal salvation, what I say is that I cannot exclude the possibility that God would save all men at the Judgment.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Men

• The master never let a statement about God go unchallenged. All God statements were poetic or symbolic expressions of the Unknowable; people, however, foolishly took them as literal descriptions of the divine.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • God

• Take my assets - but leave me my organization and in five years I'll have it all back.

  

  Alfred P. Sloan
  • Organization

• How I prayed just to get awayTo carry me anywhereSometimes the angels punish usBy answering our prayers - Carnies (2012)

  

  Neil Peart Rush

• I can't believe I'm 29. Where did the years go? Why did the years go?

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Believe
  • Why

• I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life purpose, they'll look back on it as the most important thing they discovered while at school. If they don't figure it out, they will just sail off without a rudder and get buffeted in the very rough seas of life.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don't pretend that.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Happy
  • Model
  • Right

• I'd love to write with some people from the U.K., like Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sande... there's a very long list.

  

  Fleur East
  • People
  • Like
  • Write

• Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Trying
  • Position
  • Fascinating

• The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Success
  • Play
  • Audience

• When you're shooting, there's terrible pressure, and you never switch off. Every day is like the day before an exam; it's relentless.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson

• When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live.

  

  Stuart Scott
  • Live
  • Cancer
  • Beat