Scott Thompson Quotations

I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges.

I've pretty much given up on the orange. I really have. I just don't even bother. It's just either sour, or woody, or the skin's too thick. It's very nice when you come across the perfect orange, because it's really a beautiful experience. But the stakes are too high.

People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded.

A lot of gay men are in delusion if they think they're super macho.

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.

I guess chemistry is just another word for love.

This world is filled with five billion people with five billion different ways of looking at things.

Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase.

Well I think comedy everywhere has lost a bit of its bite. In Canada, I can't argue with the quality, but it feels like it's gotten a little safe.

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.

I wanted to be a male ballet dancer.

When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me.

I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.

I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males.

Canadian comedians are generally more well-rounded... They have to do a lot more. In order to have a career in this country, you have to do everything. And in the States you can narrow-cast, you can be just a sitcom performer or a stand-up comedian or a sketch performer.

I first got into fruit when I was a teenager, when my life was changing in every way. The first time I had a mango, at like 18, I was like, 'Where has this been my whole life?

My theory is that comedy comes from little people.

In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke.

Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.

In Canadian comedy, you'll almost never see guns. If you bring a gun into a scene, it's like, 'Whoa! Wow, how are we going to deal with that!' Guns in an American comedy are a given. Violence in America is used in a much more cavalier way.

Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch.

I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.

On the first one, I couldn't believe it. I went running to the clubhouse and one of my friends (Tonya Estep) was watching and before I could say anything, she said she knew, she saw it,

Now we've survived two hurricanes. I think there will continue to be demand. No one knows what New Orleans will look like in six months.

My feeling with my characters is that they all have a right to feel exactly the way that they do, so I never censor them. I don't judge them.

I can tell you, in the past five years, we've seen a continued and remarkable decrease in risk management issues, hazing issues and all that stuff continues to decrease year in and year out. A lot of that is because the type of men we are attracting to our organizations are the ones who are looking to do well academically, who are looking to get something out of college beyond the party experience.

He was our leader. He had the special quality that made those around him elevate their games.

Going back in time to the 1980s ... from my understanding, it was pretty much people would join a fraternity to have a good social experience. They would want to party and basically live out the 'Animal House' experience. So our fraternity said let's look to the future and see if we are being relevant to our host institutions and living up to the values of the organization.

I first swung a club when I was four, but last year is when I really started playing a lot,

Maybe instead of a turkey, they buy these certificates.

It hasn't been acted on by City Council yet, but everything has indicated it will have a positive outcome. We're helping the city, and the city's helping us out.

It depends on how quickly other regions can integrate IP (Internet Protocol)-based technology into their environments,

It is an improvement over what we are currently doing.

I thought we had a chance to compete with them. But they are No. 1 for good reason. We just ran into a buzz saw today.

I thought this is something I'd do when I was like 70, ... But this made sense. It gets rough being on the road so much.

You know what worries me? Interacting with the kids. I'm afraid that's when my Tourette's will kick in.

We had extended periods (in the 1990s) where it almost didn't matter where you priced a home: There just weren't buyers to buy it. At this time -- when you bring a home on the market at a price that represents a good value -- which may well be a number below the seller's initial expectation -- buyers act.

We've lost one game in the last 11 weeks and you lose one game and everyone thinks the wheels have fallen off. But we're looking forward to this week, it should be an exciting game.

We have a really great team and we are excited about this opportunity to help people who have been devastated by Katrina,

We are happy with it (the new ballot designation). We have no problem with it. The designation is just fine.

We have been so pleased with the response to our unique schools in the Nashville area, and we are confident that other areas will embrace our concept, as well.

Don't look at the person next to you to see if it's okay to laugh! Just laugh people!

What is love but an allergic reaction to the proper lighting!

When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny.

There are a handful of teams out there training to win this race, ... The rest of us are training to finish the race as best as we can.

I've talked to Chandler and Gilbert, and they're the only ones who would have come close (to opening four schools in one school year). The closest they ever came was two (schools), maybe three one time.

We're taking the best of our current operating environment with its secured payment mechanism and integrating into it the open technologies of Sun and Cisco to provide much better plug-and-play capabilities in the future, ... We're setting the infrastructure threshold for others to innovate on top of.

Depending on our reservation status, we make that permanent.

Sara needs to start wearing a cape, because she has been Superman for us.

Adult furniture is more expensive than children's furniture.

I've got houses in El Mirage where multiple families are moving in together. All of a sudden, I'm getting five or six kids from a household. There's no way to track that.

The balls we hit were pretty hard. We were trying to hit them so hard we popped a few up, but that goes with it. All in all, I was pleased with our effort.

The biggest asset Sara has is that she thinks the game through. She doesn't just get up and pitch; every pitch has a purpose. To go along with her knowledge of other hitters and what she can and can't do, she doesn't get rattled and she has excellent control.

Any type of a call, this is the truck that's going to be responding.

Any time you have a property that is falling apart across the street from you, it doesn't help.

It's rare executives get the Net economy and he's really aggressive about pushing it forward. He's talking about what can be, not what is.

It's right at the bank, but it's below flood stage. Any more though and we'll be flooded.

It ended up being a mutually beneficial situation.

Buyers are being very aggressive right now in their offers. A year ago buyers wouldn't come in low because they didn't want to look stupid. Now it's not at all unusual for us to get offers $20,000 to $40,000 under the asking price for homes in the $400,000 to $600,000 range.

and that's why it works in our system.

The first game I was a little disappointed with our mental approach to the first game. We had an average game defensively, but offensively we hit the ball really hard.

These girls have some defensive savvy. They know what to do when the ball is hit their way.

It's one way to assist and promote our local businesses. And it continues to be successful every year.

It's not like we're just making this stuff up. We're trying to stabilize our boundaries as much as is possible. . . . I'm doing the best I can to divide the puddle up so that every student goes to a school that has a reasonable amount of students at it.

They played well like they were capable of there in the second game.

It's frustrating for parents, it's frustrating for the principals, and it's frustrating for teachers who have to stay late to monitor kids (who also get picked up late after school). It's a difficult situation all around.

It's like we ran into a buzz saw. They hit it everywhere we weren't and they hit it hard. I was pretty impressed. We threw it inside, we threw it outside, we threw it up, we threw it down. They hit every pitch. They were just on target.

There just isn't anything we can buy off the shelf to fit Visa's needs.

They're a great side and like I said they've run into a bit of form now and its a big challenge for us,

If I didn't think these girls were ready, we wouldn't do it. That's not the place to be playing around. We don't practice every day, but when we do practice, it's a hard practice.

I can prove out here that people will buy a house whether schools are within six miles or not.

I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really.

I'm not really cool, or dashing, or any of those things.

If comedy duos don't like each other, it just won't work.

I'm a total nerd. I love fantasy.

The gay male is always going to be at the bottom.

Why is being outed such a big deal? When I find out that someone's gay, my respect for them increases tenfold.

My parents won’t let me have a motorcycle, but they give me all the guns I want. I asked them for a motorcycle last Christmas and they told me I’d only kill myself. They got me this twelve-gauge instead.

Comedy is actually very macho driven.

I believe the things that happened to me as a child scarred me terribly, and I wish somebody would have helped me with some of the things that happened.

My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity.