Scott Adams Quotes
In case the rest of you missed it, the inspirational speech was: 'If you work hard, you can achieve great things. And then you die'.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.
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Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
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I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
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I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.
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Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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Today's patience can transform yesterday's discouragements into tomorrow's discoveries. Today's purposes can turn yesterday's defeats into tomorrow's determination.
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For the most part, my house stays the same over the years. I tend to design with pieces that feel timeless to me, so I'm not constantly rearranging my home.
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Television has to reflect back to you your own sense of security. It also has to mirror your sense of your own decency and your own limitations.
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There are so few people that wake up every day and go do something that they don't dread... I'm very lucky.
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In case the rest of you missed it, the inspirational speech was: 'If you work hard, you can achieve great things. And then you die'.
