M.M. Scott Quotes

As for money - when I have it, it's great. When I don't, I go get some. I've been a dishwasher, a gardener, a cleaner.

You've got to be a certain type of person to be a professional fighter. I prefer to do it for pretend.

Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.

True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth.

The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility.

Checklists are really helpful ways to remind people around how to manage complicated tasks.

Eventually, ritual was developed as a means of contacting and utilizing the energy within humans as well as in the nature world.

mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.

The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.

I tour more than I need to, more than is good for you. But it's my favorite part of music. I much prefer it to studio work.

Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

What I love doing is taking my dog for runs.

For me, the ultimate form of expression is blues, where jazz appeals to me on an intellectual level.

Ambivalence is like carbon monoxide - undetectable yet deadly.

Remember, it's not what you do but that you do something that matters.

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.

You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.

One can overlook stupidity, until it evolves into malice.

A labor of love always pays off.

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Have you ever noticed it for some reason you want to feel completely out of step with the rest of the world, the only thing to do is sit around a cocktail lounge for the afternoon?

I'm a much better singer than actor, which doesn't really say a whole lot.

The rich are different from us.

An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.

I want to make films about the human condition, what we're doing to the world or ourselves.

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

Status, worry and comparison are ways to madness, not victory.

I'm a moviemaker, not a documentarian. I try to hit the truth.

My old man is a man of few words.

While there are many things you can do to help a loved one in need, there are some things that must be done by the Lord.

It seems a pity, but I do not think that I can write more. For God's sake look after our people.

Yes, racism looks like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilege is another. Access is another. Ignorance is another. Apathy is another, and so on.

The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.

Putting Windows [3.11] on top of DOS is like putting whipped cream on a road apple [horse poop].

Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.

If you are really effective at what you do, 95% of the things said about you will be negative.

There are no mistakes in life - only lessons. Lessons to be learnt and re-learnt until they are no longer lessons.

A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane.

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.

And the Lord said you got to rise Up!

TThe most effective way to save the threatened and decimated natural world is to cause people to fall in love with it again, with its beauty and its reality.

Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.

I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character.

We are serving no one man, we are serving our country.

Why do people think being with someone is the answer to everything?

Every hour you spend writing is an hour you don't spend worrying about your writing.