Austin Scott Quotes
I'm a conservative Republican, and I'm not a member of the Tea Party Caucus, but I have very good friends that are.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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It makes sense to have cameras in places where terrorism and crime are of particular concern - such as in Times Square or near major bridges and tunnels. It would be more troubling to learn, however, that the government has focused cameras on the front doors of our homes just to keep track of our comings and goings.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.
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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to Europe is over. It evaporates. It has the good sense to go away, and you are left with nothing but a wonderful memory.
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Of course, I also encountered hostile reactions in campaigning. People called me names, even spat at me; I received more threats. The most remarkable people, to me, were those who apparently approved of everything I said but nonetheless wouldn't dream of voting for the Liberal Party. It reminded me of Somalia: they wouldn't vote outside their clan.
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While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.
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What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.
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I'm a conservative Republican, and I'm not a member of the Tea Party Caucus, but I have very good friends that are.
