Scotty McCreery Quotes

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

Scotty McCreery

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• I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?

  

  A. Balasubramaniam
  • World
  • Why
  • Truth

• The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Life
  • Important
  • Sports

• I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • World
  • Mind
  • Think

• Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Work
  • Animal
  • Rain

• Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • School
  • System
  • U.K.

• The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • You
  • Will
  • Lie

• We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Equal

• A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Book
  • Half
  • Only

• The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Life
  • Real
  • Night

• I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff - fishing, canoeing.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Doing
  • Tennis
  • Fishing

• The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Country
  • Rock

• I try not to wear foundation unless I have a giant pimple, which sometimes I do. For the red carpet, I may add a brighter colored lip and darker eyes. But my standard is blush and mascara.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • May
  • Eyes
  • Red

• I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Myself
  • See
  • Nothing

• Hunting for sport is an improvement over hunting for food, in that there has been added to the test of skill and ethical code, which the hunter formulates for himself, and must live up to without the moral support of bystanders.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Up
  • Live
  • Food

• Bottom trawls-large bag-shaped nets towed over the sea floor-account for more of the world's catch of fish, shrimp, squid, and other marine animals than any other fishing method. But trawling also disturbs the sea floor more than any other human activity, with increasingly devastating consequences for the world's fish population.

  

  Carl Safina
  • World
  • Sea
  • Fishing

• The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Fighting

• Not disown my past or upbringing, but I'd admired American actors, really American movie star - particularly the rebel heroes of the '50s.

  

  Maxwell Caulfield
  • American
  • Movie
  • Past

• Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.

  

  Jason Silva
  • Food
  • Technology
  • Fire

• Trauma happens to us, our friends, our families, and our neighbors. Research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has shown that one in five Americans was sexually molested as a child; one in four was beaten by a parent to the point of a mark being left on their body; and one in three couples engages in physical violence. A quarter of us grew up with alcoholic relatives, and one out of eight witnessed their mother being beaten or hit.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Friends
  • Violence
  • Trauma

• The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Firsts
  • Individual
  • Social

• The more money a woman has, the more educated she is, and the more educated she is, the more she knows about how to prevent pregnancy, and also has more reproductive control - she feels a greater ability to say no to a man when she doesn't have to depend on him for money.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Money
  • Woman
  • Educated

• The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

  

  Scotty McCreery