Scott Adams Quotes
As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.
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There's something called CEQA in California - NEPA at the federal level. There's indigenous lands and autonomies relating to governance on those lands. There are all kinds of obstructions as it relates to just getting zoning approval and getting building permits.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
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By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.
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The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
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I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.
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Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.
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I'm a dork!
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From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.
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People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
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A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.
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If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.
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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
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I've been to Israel many times - I've lost count of how many times.
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One year, I was a patron of a new opera. It was, to put it kindly, unpleasant to the ear. The friends I went with hated it. Keeping quiet about my contribution, I was outed when one of them, reading the program at the restaurant during dinner, saw my name.
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Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.
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New York is my favorite city.
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I just developed my act way back in the late '80s. I went to college in Georgia, so I picked up the Southern accent. I talked like that with my friends all the time, because it was fun. It was funny... All my friends were real Southern. We're buddies, so I'd say stuff to make them laugh. So that was pretty much it.
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I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do. The world wasn't so wonderful back then, with segregated rule in the South. But we were never hopeless and we never despaired because we had adults out there struggling with us, being there for us, and buffering us.
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It strikes me every time I do an interview that I don't really sit around thinking about my goals and my life and my career. I do what I love doing and I get a lot of feedback. I'm free as a bird, you know? If I do something good, it's, 'Wow, that was brilliant,' and if I do something bad, it just goes away.
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We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
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I did a lot of humanitarian work before I joined the military.
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As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.
