Tom Scholz Quotes

I was basically a dork that hit the books and liked to build things and did all of the things that you weren't supposed to do to be popular. But somehow I ended up onstage, playing guitar in front of everybody else.

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• I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Myself

• If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.

  

  Barry Diller
  • You
  • Now
  • Stock

• You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Done
  • Earth

• One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Work
  • Own
  • Work Hard

• The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Sun

• I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Movie
  • Star
  • Try

• When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'

  

  Vince Cable
  • Job
  • Future
  • Chance

• Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Goal
  • Definitely
  • Sell

• Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Mother
  • Choose
  • Abortion

• I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Energy
  • Team
  • Positive

• I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Homosexual
  • Microphone
  • Podium

• When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Night

• Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Service
  • Creating
  • Twitter

• Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Music
  • American
  • Beginning

• If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Women
  • Change
  • Rules

• The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Point
  • Between
  • Technical

• I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Learning

• Let's just focus on unity and love.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Love
  • Focus
  • Unity

• I'm part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have a good time. When I walk into the meet-and-greet, someone's always going to have a story, a sad story or a happy story.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• The American dream is still to own your home.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Home
  • American
  • Dream

• I'm not afraid to work.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • Work

• Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Best
  • Racism
  • Excellence

• Even if some days I feel like I'm ready to fall apart, I am ultimately happier than I've ever been. My family gives me more joy than I thought possible, and my career fulfills me tremendously. All in all, I feel like am in the exact place I am supposed to be in, doing exactly what I am supposed to be doing.

  

  Ali Landry
  • Family
  • Career
  • Fall

• I was basically a dork that hit the books and liked to build things and did all of the things that you weren't supposed to do to be popular. But somehow I ended up onstage, playing guitar in front of everybody else.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
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