Scott Adams Quotes
The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.
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I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.
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Everyone loves Beyonce. If you don't love Beyonce, we can't talk.
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I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.
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My favorite thing about decorating is mixing different periods and styles. If you have something that's old, and you really do want to mix those styles, then you have to add something that's obviously modern with it. You can't put a kind of a mediocre thing in the middle.
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Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.
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I have never had to look up a definition of honor. I knew instinctively what it was. It is something I had the day I was born, and I never had to question where it came from or by what right it was mine. If I was stripped of my honor, I would choose death as certainly and unemotionally as I clean my shoes in the morning. Honor is the presence of God in man.
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That is a known bug in 5.00550. Either an upgrade or a downgrade will fix it.
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I learned a lot about self-reinvention. How you can be born Milton Sternberg in the Bronx and then become Monroe Stahr in Hollywood.
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I'm never writing as a character.
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Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children - and the next day, it's completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that's when I had to man up.
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I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I've been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.
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Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes.
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People wouldn't hire me for comedies. They would say, 'Oh, he doesn't do comedy,' and now it's really all I do.
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Although I believe the Web has greatly increased the distribution of quality news, I do worry about those who don't have Internet access.
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It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
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I should like to have been killed in the war.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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Jazz is more raw than punk in a lot of ways. It's so expressive. A lot of people say to me, especially older people, 'It took me ages to get into jazz.'
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It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.
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Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities.
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The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility.
