Boz Scaggs Quotes
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I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'
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I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.
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Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She was harassed and placed under surveillance by the Nation of Islam (NOI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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The message was always, 'It's good to be pretty, but don't look like you're trying to be pretty!' Inherent in that is a lot of misogyny, I think, because the implication is, 'You must work hard to achieve a feminine ideal for which society has nothing but contempt.'
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
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Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.
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Anything that I can do with Jennie Garth, I would love to do it. I really like her. I got along with her really well, and I enjoyed her perspective on life. I think she's really talented and very, very funny.
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Anytime something eats too much of my life, I kill it.
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When someone doesn't react to changes, the changes turn against him.
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For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.
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Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.
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I love high-end designers, but a head-to-toe designer look for me is extremely boring. I've always mixed it up.
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I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.
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That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
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Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.
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Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.
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There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.
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I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.
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There is an idea, first of all, of vision fully formed with the eyes closed. Of course the vision we have in a lucid dream often has greater lucidity and clarity than vision with the eyes open.
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I remembered that my grandfather had spent his teenage years in Shanghai and that he went back after he finished medical school to work there in a hospital. So I went back into my family archives and was able to find out his exact address; it was a street that was in the French Concession.
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The press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. ... There is obviously a cultural gap. The act of breaking into a computer system has to have the same social stigma as breaking into a neighbor's house. It should not matter that the neighbor's door is unlocked.
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The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer.
