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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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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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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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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There is a triple layer of jargon when writing about climate change. You have the scientists, who are very cautious now because of the amount of climate denial. Then you have the U.N. jargon - I had to carry around a glossary of terms. It was like an alphabet soup.
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I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.
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My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football. . . . Women who want to remake the future should look for guidance not to substitute parent figures but to the brash assertions of pagan sport.
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I love research. I love learning...
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No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.
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All the things that are worth doing, take time.
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The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea.
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The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer.
