Scott Adams Quotes
The world isn't fair, but as long as it's tilting in my direction, I find that there's a natural cap to my righteous indignation.
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I want to get into movies, not just TV series.
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In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.
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Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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Once you digitize data, you can actually analyze patterns and relationships in geographic space - relationships between certain health patterns and air or water pollution, between plants and climate, soils, landscape.
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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In his enigmatic and cunning story 'The Crown of Feathers,' Isaac Bashevis Singer refuses to produce uncontradictory evidence of God's will but rather mixes all signals, jams the evidence, stalls every conclusion.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.
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I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.
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These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.
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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to know how to write a good song.
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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Being a father makes everything in the world make sense.
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My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.
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Falling for you was the scariest thing in the entire world, and losing my heart to you was the most terrifying thing I could imagine. Until I finally realized why I was so afraid. I thought I was going to lose myself in you, when the truth is that with you is where I’ve finally found everything that truly matters.
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There is movement -- movement in the right direction
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I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.
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We can never know truth, but some stories are better than others.
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The world isn't fair, but as long as it's tilting in my direction, I find that there's a natural cap to my righteous indignation.
