Scott Adams Quotes
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.
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When you're adapting, you are working on someone else's problem that they have already solved. The work has been fine-tuned and read countless times, and you're just arriving at the end and taking what you want, so of course it is the regal way to moviemaking. Plays are just the ideal scripts - the structure is there and waiting for you.
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I used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies.
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If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies.
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I'm not a religious person but I do like the idea of Sunday as a day set apart from the rest of the week. It's nice to have a period of reflection and have time to think about things.
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I thought of inviting you to my other club but you know how it is. Lunching there is a useful way of reminding people that you're still alive, but the members will come up and congratulate you on the fact.
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.
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Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.
