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Tim Scott Quotes

I think one of the most threatening places to be in politics is a black conservative because there are so many liberals who want to continue to reinforce a stereotype that doesn't exist about America.

Tim Scott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 19, 1965

Topics

Politics Black Think America Want

Competing at the highest level is the greatest test of one's character.

Russell Mark

Character Test Competing Level

I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for the living as well as mourn for the dead.

Rose Kennedy

Life Work Challenge I Am Life Is A

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.

Mary Schmich

Fear Day Believe You Every Day Said

Television is a very writer-driven business, and it's one of the few parts of entertainment where writers are treated with respect, only because they need you. If they didn't have to treat you with respect, they would be happy to dismiss you.

Mitchell Hurwitz

Business Respect Happy Be Happy You

In truth, there is no rational argument for guns in this society. This is no longer a frontier nation in which people hunt their own food. It is a crowded, overwhelmingly urban country in which letting people have access to guns is a continuing disaster.

Molly Ivins

Truth Food People Society Country

One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing.

Luke Ford

Growing Days Autism Kids Spectrum

I come from south Wales. A place called Aberbargoed.

Luke Evans

Place Come South Wales

The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize and plan.

Jason Reynolds

Life Truth Game Plan You Chess

My older brother gave me a cassette tape of Mr. Bungle, and I couldn't stop listening to it. I used to drive around Colorado in a Mustang II - it was when they got away from the muscle-car Mustangs, so it was sort of old lady. I couldn't go above 45 mph in that car, but I would drive around listening to Mr. Bungle.

Derek Cianfrance

Car Brother Me Listening Drive Lady

I think of feedback as constructive, not positive or negative. You choose to do what you want with it.

Denise Morrison

Positive Negative Think You Choose

The earth's biosphere could be thought of as a sort of palace. The continents are rooms in the palace; islands are smaller rooms. Each room has its own decor and unique inhabitants; many of the rooms have been sealed off for millions of years. The doors in the palace have been flung open, and the walls are coming down.

Richard Preston

Walls Thought Doors Unique Down Own

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

Morrissey

Life Death Me Think Bed Lying