Elizabeth Scott Quotes
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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Sometimes I go to movies, and it's just a bombardment, and I'm not entertained by them - I'm assaulted by them! And I know I sound like such a drama queen, but I find that really strange.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I don't watch TV.
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Teaching kids about health and fitness is important to me. It's about being fit for life.
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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It must be the PGA Championship if it's August and you can sit down and talk to the heat or reach inside your shirt, where it's 110 degrees, and grab handfuls of humidity.
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Netweaver was going to be the number one middleware player in the world. We heard about Netweaver day and night. Oracle became number one. No one talks about Netweaver.
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Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted.
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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.
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Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.
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A 007 James Bond image is very dangerous for a central banker to have.
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A little roller up along first; behind the bag! It gets through Buckner! Here comes Knight and the Mets win it!
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'If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. At Eden-Olympia work is the ultimate play, and play the ultimate work.'
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The outline of our lives, like the candles flame, is continuously coaxed in new directions by a variety of random events that, along with our responses to them, determine our fate.
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This in turn suggests an answer to our question: what happened between the birth of De Sade and the birth of Krafft-Ebbing? The rise of the novel taught Europe to use its imagination. And when imagination was applied to sex, the result was the rise of pornography - and of 'sexual perversion.'
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I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.
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My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
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I grew up listening to Nirvana and then went through some bad '90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.
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Do not the Rays which differ in Refrangibility differ also in Flexibity; and are they not by their different Inflexions separated from one another, so as after separation to make the Colours in the three Fringes above described? And after what manner are they inflected to make those Fringes?
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And in the end blood and tears are alike because they stop too.
