Scott Adams Quotes
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We know that if you just were to take the drugs that you were supposed to take for diabetes or hypertension, just take it, as opposed to not take it, we could save $7,000, $3,000 per patient per year.
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Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.
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Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
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You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but then you go out and actually try to do it, it's kind of scary.
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When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.
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I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
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The fundamental vision hasn't changed. What does change is how you get there, because there are still problems you have to figure out.
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I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.
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The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?
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If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by looking at the Constitution, with the goal of holding a new Constitutional Convention.
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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.
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'Thrones' would be the perfect platform to send a progressive message because right now, our politicians aren't telling us any truths. It's hard to find a good, meaningful message, so I think it's up to storytellers, television shows, and films to have an impact on the world conversation. Is that not what film and television is for?
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A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.
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Right before the play started, we looked at each other, gave a little signal to 'in-and-out' those two guys. My guy came in, his guy went out. We switched. The ball came to me.
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I'm curious how you'll know it works. I assume it's mostly a cosmetic change.
