Ken Stott Quotes
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There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
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I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.
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I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.
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Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.
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I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.
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I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.
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Don't take things too seriously, and just chill.
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In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.
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I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth.
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The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.
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It's a pleasure playing your big hit records and it's a real joy to see the audience.
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That period of history has always fascinated me - Greek history, Greek mythology.
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I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.
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I wanted success, but I wanted it on my own terms.
