Ken Stott Quotes

The Scottish are not shy when it comes to expressing themselves.

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• I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Today
  • Party

• Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Knows

• I can't predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.

  

  Salar Kamangar
  • Time
  • Think
  • Future

• The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Law
  • Running
  • Effort

• I don't have many friends.

  

  Larry David
  • Friends
  • Many

• We all have the archetype inside us of the enlightened being.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Being
  • Inside
  • U.S.

• My favourite smell is horses. In fact, most of the time, I do smell like horses.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Time
  • Smell
  • Favourite

• Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Winners
  • Losers
  • Employer

• Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance, et cetera.' And they say to the public, 'Here, this is what you're gonna like.' But you might say, 'No, I don't like that!' You'll probably say 'no' many more times than you'll say 'yes!'

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Perfect
  • Dance
  • Cute

• There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Truth
  • Understand
  • Stars

• Without the balancing context of everyday life, all you have is the news, and news by its nature is generally bad.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Nature

• Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Music
  • Learning
  • Like

• It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Writing
  • Stupid
  • Inside

• In 'Billy Madison,' I worked with Adam before anyone really knew he was Adam Sandler.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Worked
  • Adam
  • Billy

• There buds the promise of celestial worth.

  

  Edward Young
  • Promise

• The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer’s shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Death
  • Drunk

• If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do - perhaps above all we need a revival of the small-town civility of the nineteenth century. Manners, not devices: sometimes it's just better not to ask, and better not to look.

  

  James Gleick
  • World
  • Live
  • Small

• Well, I'm wrestling alligators.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Wrestling

• I'm a big believer in playing truth and not doing things for effect. It's not about whether you look pretty or glamorous. It's about whether people connect. That's important to me in any work I do. For me, the key is always trying to find the connection between the audience and the character I'm playing.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• You couldn't give me any more confidence than when I was on T.V. because I was in control, but I wasn't in control in my private life.

  

  Cilla Black
  • Life
  • Control
  • Confidence

• To me, 'sexy' is a kind of beauty, a kind of self-expression, one that is to be celebrated.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Sexy

• A theory of cultural change is impossible without knowledge of the changing sense ratios effected by various externalizations of our senses. (p. 49)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Knowledge

• The Scottish are not shy when it comes to expressing themselves.

  

  Ken Stott