Boz Scaggs Quotes
I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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I shot 'Girl' about three weeks after I finished 'The Magnificent Seven.'
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.
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I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.
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We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and we need climate solutions that solve that crisis.
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Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.
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There are no ordinary moments.
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My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.
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The upward revision of import duty, from 1 per cent to over 4 per cent on steam coal imports, will adversely impact the industry, as it will lead to increase in cost of power generation.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
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The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
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The young have less charity for aged follies than the old for those of youth.
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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
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The bell strikes one. We take no note of timeBut from its loss.
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Is not poetry the food of love?
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
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I have to have a passion in my life.
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Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.
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You know, when you're young, God sweeps you up. He holds you there. The real snag is to stay there and to know how to fall. All those days when you can't hold on any longer. When you tumble. The test is being able to climb up again.
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I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.
