Melanie Scrofano Quotes

I care about hurting other people because, well, I don't want to hurt people - well, I do sometimes, but I still don't.

Melanie Scrofano

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PeopleHurtCareSometimesWant

When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite, believing that these critics would be so charmed by my professionalism that they would see the error of their misogynist ways and swiftly run out to read a bell hooks book. Ha!

Jessica Valenti

BookProfessionalismBelievingRun

A mad person isn't someone who sees what isn't there; he's someone who sees what is there but that others can't see. I really believe that.

John Burnside

BelieveSomeoneMadPersonSeeWho

Many scammers are only using personal checks for payment because they can take the money and run.

Matthew Lesko

MoneyRunPersonalTakePayment

A lot of people, including me, are worried that inequality will lead to bad things.

Angus Deaton

PeopleMeBadInequalityWillLead

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

SucceedHonorFraudFailRather

I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.

Lorne Michaels

ThinkComedyHealthyAuthority

Modern video games like 'Mass Effect' and 'Uncharted' cost tens of millions of dollars and require the labor of hundreds of people, who can each work 80- or even 100-hour weeks.

Jason Schreier

WorkPeopleVideo GamesLaborGames

I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch.

Count Basie

FastPlayJazzUnderstandRealKick

When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too because there are no lines to memorize.

Cindy Margolis

FunCameraYouModelingActingMore

In the beginning, YouTube content wasn't up to the same standard as traditional media. Now, people are using it as a launchpad.

Toby Turner

BeginningPeopleMediaNowYouTube

The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals of their more opulent neighbors, whose power was necessary for their protection.

Thomas Bulfinch

PowerSocietySmallSometimesLand

To have a body of work is a blessing - when you have songs that have been around generation after generation that they call timeless music, you can work that for a long time.

Tionne Watkins

WorkMusicTimeBlessingGeneration

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