Jimmy Scott Quotes

I've had statements made - 'Who in the heck wants to hear a 60-year-old singer?' That statement was made - it's disheartening, you know, because you say, 'Well, hey, why should a guy feel like that about it?'

Jimmy Scott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 17, 1925 - June 12, 2014

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FeelYouKnowSayWhySinger

I'm actually much more of a rock player than many people think.

Joe Bonamassa

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I don't go out drinking and stuff like that. My friends say 'Just have one drink, JD.' I say 'What's the point?' I'll go to a club and have a Red Bull, get my buzz. And the next day I feel cool. It's discipline, not just with drinking but a lot of things in life. You've just got to look at the bigger picture.

Jermain Defoe

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I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.

Anna Deavere Smith

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I've always been bossy.

Shirley Temple

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Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.

Mohsin Hamid

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Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.

Lisel Mueller

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I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city.

Bob Filner

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There is nothing more painful than watching a child with a terminal disease.

Ara Parseghian

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I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

Aung San Suu Kyi

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I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work.

Anna Silk

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Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Writers are not celebrities, so you don't expect to walk down the street and hear, 'Oh my God, there's Sylvia Day.' You prefer to be anonymous.

Sylvia Day

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