Scott Adams Quotes
Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.
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We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
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I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.
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It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.
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Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
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I love to shop at Macy's. It has a huge Guess section and lots of Jessica Simpson stuff.
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Most of us are at war with ourselves, are our own worst enemies. We expect a great deal of ourselves, yet we do not put ourselves in a condition to achieve great things. We are either too indulgent to our bodies, or we are not indulgent enough.
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When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.
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Good style - regardless of fads - means the thing that suits your body.
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I think Ovechkin is everything the NHL needs.
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As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.
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But love like that doesn’t just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there’s always a little love left, underneath.Yes. Horrible, isn’t it?
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
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Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven.
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Shooting this show is pretty intense. You lose your life. But I have no life, so it's perfect!
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Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man.
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This idea where, in this safe haven for Jews, Jews will threaten to kill other Jews, it wasn't in the brochure.
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The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience.
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Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.
