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

• I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Long
  • Society
  • Exploring

• 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

• When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins

• 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

• I hope we see more stories where the heroes are real heroes, real people that don't need weapons or super powers to change people's lives.

  

  Diego Luna
  • People
  • Real
  • Hope

• History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a contagious disease.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • World
  • Great
  • History

• My favorite thing to do is transform. The further the character is away from me the more I enjoy it.

  

  Erica Schroeder
  • Character
  • Favorite Thing
  • Enjoy It

• I think that when the social stakes for people are higher, how you present yourself may sometimes feel like it's going to inform your destiny. Because if other people regard you in a certain way, they'll want to help you, and you will end up having a career.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Up
  • May

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

  

  Scotty McCreery