Willard Scott Quotes
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My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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Music is something I can't stop. Whether people are going to hear it or not, I'm still going to make music.
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The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
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Salary, (I said, quite offended) what do I care for salary? I do not want the salary; I want the position. It is glory enough to go back to the Pittsburgh Division in your former place. You can make my salary just what you please and you need not give me any more than what I am getting now... Oh, please don't speak to me of money!
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I just think about cutting my hair when it's too hot or when I have to go somewhere that I have to wash it and style it. That's when I think about cutting it.
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I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it.
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America's greatest strength has always been its hopeful vision of human progress.
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I'd like to do 'Saturday Night Live.'
