Scott Adams Quotes
Good advertising can make people buy your product even if it sucks ... A dollar spent on brainwashing is more cost-effective than a dollar spent on product improvement.
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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
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Obviously, you need talent to do well in your sport, but I think hard work goes a long way. You need to be lucky within the sport too, though. In badminton, you can benefit from good draws and people getting injured.
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My grown man crush is Morris Chestnut. He's just timeless!
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I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
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What you believe one day isn't what you believe the next day and I think every writer secretly believes that they may never be able to do write good song or script again, but they can.
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Home is where one starts from.
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Teaching does allow me to keep one foot in the youthful waters I tend to occupy in my novels, so I'm thankful for that. My students also remind me on a daily basis that the stories I collected during my district attorney days are actually interesting to people who haven't had that experience.
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Good advertising can make people buy your product even if it sucks ... A dollar spent on brainwashing is more cost-effective than a dollar spent on product improvement.
