Bart Scott Quotes

I wasn't supposed to make it out of Detroit. I wasn't supposed to get a scholarship. I was supposed to be covering kicks the rest of my life. But here I am. I'm a man playing with the house's money, and that's a dangerous man.

Bart Scott

• Money
• Playing
• Scholarship
• Kicks

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• Low budget movies make lots of money.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Money
  • Movies
  • Budget

• President Obama has contempt for real money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Real
  • Money
  • President

• Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Music
  • Money
  • True

• You have to understand that you are not making the film for yourself; you're making it for the audience. If I am asking my audiences to buy tickets, I owe them the worth of their money, and I owe them entertainment.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Money
  • Film
  • Audience

• The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-libbed by people who can't ad-lib. It's about asking for money, which is something nobody wants to hear, even from their own relatives.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Money
  • Nobody

• Trump can spend virtually an unlimited amount of his own money on this election, which makes him unlike any of the other candidates in the race. So those who oppose him will have to work very hard to make sure he doesn't win.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Work
  • Money
  • Win

• Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Women
  • Money
  • Why

• Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Money
  • Culture
  • Education

• Academically, I was never that interested. I skipped classes. My biggest dream was to have a coffee shop, but I had no idea how to get the money to do that.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Money
  • Dream
  • Coffee

• Indies are always an extra challenge. The time is shorter because you have less money to spend and fewer days to shoot.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Time
  • Money
  • Challenge

• If you only get money, but you don't care about a thing, right or wrong, you cannot last. That cannot sustain you for the future.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Money
  • Future
  • Care

• In America, it has been proven that the bulk of spending money is in the hands of women between 60 and 80, so it's so stupid. The people who do have the time and money to shop are either retired or empty-nesters.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
  • Money
  • Movies
  • Try

• A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Money
  • Man
  • Funny

• Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Money
  • Purpose
  • Taken

• Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Money
  • Red
  • Blue

• I've done some luxury flying, which is brilliant. It has only happened once or twice, but it was nice because flying is the worst part of the holiday. But then again, if the plane crashes, you're still dead. For that much money I'd want a little capsule that whizzed me off to safety if it was going to crash.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Money
  • Done
  • Nice

• Our world is afflicted by poverty. Don't spend all this money on clothes!

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • World
  • Money
  • Poverty

• The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Money
  • Innovation

• Here we were, the only seven humans in space, repairing a telescope whose only purpose is to enrich the minds of people on planet Earth and increase our understanding of the workings of the universe. I can think of no better peaceful use of space for all humankind.

  

  John M. Grunsfeld
  • People
  • Earth
  • Space

• You go through publicists because it's easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, 'No'.

  

  Martin Short

• People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • People
  • Willing
  • Wiser

• The days, the weeks, the years out here shall come back again, and our dead comrades shall then stand up again and march with us, our heads shall be clear, we shall have a purpose, and so we shall march, our dead comrades beside us, the years at the Front behind us:—against whom, against whom?

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Purpose
  • Days
  • Front

• I wasn't supposed to make it out of Detroit. I wasn't supposed to get a scholarship. I was supposed to be covering kicks the rest of my life. But here I am. I'm a man playing with the house's money, and that's a dangerous man.

  

  Bart Scott
  • Money
  • Playing
  • Scholarship