Scott Adams Quotes
When times are bad, the gloves come off and employers are less nice. People become disposable.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
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A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
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Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.
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When you watch a film, a huge part of it is the music and the coloring and everything that comes together to create such a unique film. So, reading the script, I had no idea what it was gonna be.
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I can't speak on behalf of the show. I'm not a creator; I'm just a pawn.
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It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.
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I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.
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All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's.
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I try to ignore the Tonys buzz as much as possible. It's wonderful to be thought of that way, but I have to kind of pretend it's not happening so I can keep focus. It's about the work I'm doing, and it's more than enough to come away knowing that people are changed when they leave the theater.
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The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.
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If the night's right and the people are right, of course I want to be out, I want to be socializing. I don't want to be in my studio 24 hours a day for the whole rest of my life.
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Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.
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When times are bad, the gloves come off and employers are less nice. People become disposable.
