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.
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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.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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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.
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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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.
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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.'
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
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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.
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The clash between Popper and Kuhn is not about a mere technical point in epistemology.
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I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.
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Let's just focus on unity and love.
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Dressing up is like therapy; I feel better in myself when I've made an effort.
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I grew up in the Fifties and Sixties and remember how unpleasant all kinds of food could be then.
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I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.
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Blow, blow your trumpets till they crack, Ye little men of little souls! And bid them huddle at your back - Gold-sucking leeches, shoals on shoals!Fill all the air with hungry wails - 'Reward us, ere we think or write! Without your Gold mere Knowledge fails To sate the swinish appetite!'
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If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.
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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.
