Scott Adams Quotes
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.
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The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.
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We are working with the power industry all over the world. We are meeting customers in aerospace and getting them to tour our plants.
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But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous.
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I always like to look at things and think, 'Would I be proud to bring my grandma and grandpa to come see me in this?' And if I wouldn't want them to see it, then it's not something that I should immortalize myself on film in.
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My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.
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I did everything in my power to give my brokers brand identity and clout in the market. I saw my job as parent to build them up and if I took care of them, then they would take care of their customer.
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Most accountants are strange - let's be honest.
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An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.
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In every country I visit, I am proud to present Jasmine and what we are doing here. I am in no doubt that we will soon be called upon to teach others the model we have been developing for the past decade, for the promotion of women-owned businesses.
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If I ever move back to Canada, it'll be because I'm terminally ill.
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Before you have kids, you're like, 'I hope I don't die on this plane,' or, 'I hope I don't die crossing the street.' It's all me, me, me. 'What do I want to eat? What do I want to do?' But when you have a baby, and you would just happily stand in front of a bus to save her, it's a ferocious commitment to protecting your charge.
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[On peanut M&Ms:] It is the eggness of them. A shell, chocolate placenta, proteiny peanut baby. Life shape, birth shape, cell shape, protoplasmic-ooze shape. A shape that calls straight through civilization to our reptilian brains.
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I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have the ability to travel all over the world and experience different cultures.
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Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.
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He changed more times than a baby in a beer-drinking contest.
