Tim Scott Quotes
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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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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What is cool today is not going to be cool tomorrow, and what wasn't cool yesterday is going to be cool tomorrow.
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It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.
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I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.
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He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.
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I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
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Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.
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I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
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I'm a rather decisive type.
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In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.
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The people will live on. The learning and blundering people will live on. They will be tricked and sold and again sold. And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds.
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I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.
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My ambition has always been to reduce a building’s support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life’s work.
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The trouble with 'sacrifices as symbolic acts' is that the immediate impact on those for whom the sacrifice is made quickly fades, while the impact on those who actually make the sacrifice can go on and on.
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They say I'm insane because I need to have so much creative control. They say I'm unmanageable, but I'm not. I just know what I like. I'm obsessed with it. If you can't control it, that's like having somebody else paint your pictures. How could you do that? I never could.
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We don't take on battles so small we know we can win, we take on battles so big we dare to dream of winning them.
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It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.
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I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God - and that makes the difference.
