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Ken Stott Quotes

In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. It's nauseating, programme after programme.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: scottish
Birth: October 19, 1954

Topics

Reality Television Everything Seem

Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.

Jennifer Hudson

School Famous Grammar Always Singer

I prefer the path of peace over war.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Path Peace War Over Prefer

Children are trained to think linearly instead of imaginatively; they are taught to read slowly and carefully, and are discouraged from daydreaming. They are trained to reduce the use and capacity of their brain.

Children Brain Think Discouraged

When you've biked only on quiet cul-de-sacs and college campuses, the idea of riding in the city, right up there alongside the cars, seems, frankly, pretty absurd.

City College You Quiet Riding Right

I mean, I was just one of the ones who got exposed, and because of the position I was in, where I was in my life, it went mainstream. A lot of people got out of it after my situation, not because I went to prison but because it was sad for them to see me go through something that was so pointless, that could have been avoided.

Life Sad People Me Prison My Life

The origins of my career as a peace mediator can be found from my childhood years. I was born in the city of Viipuri, then still part of Finland. We lost Viipuri when the Soviet Union attacked my country. Along with 400,000 fellow Karelians, I became an eternally displaced person in the rest of Finland.

Martti Ahtisaari

Childhood Peace City Rest Career

That period of history has always fascinated me - Greek history, Greek mythology.

History Me Always Mythology Period

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.

Chuck Palahniuk

Quality You Find Up Take Stuff

By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Truth Question Questioning Arrive

If you want a watch with diamonds on the bezel, you don't need me.

Me Diamonds You Want Need Watch

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

Together Consequences Going Come

At the heart of life lies a mystery that everybody has to wrestle with. What the heck are we doing here? How does this world work, and how do I fit?

Life Work Heart World Doing Mystery

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