Scott Adams Quotes
Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer's could make those kind of numbers. It's great work if you can get it.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
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People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
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The way the Facebook network is set up, it's not as suitable for content discovery. Twitter is better, but there are too many over-sharers. Also, on Twitter and Facebook, everything comes from people you know. On StumbleUpon, it comes from people that you don't necessarily know but share your interests.
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I don't think limits.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
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You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'
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I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.
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I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.
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Events are not a matter of chance.
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I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.
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The thing that scares me is a place like the Amazon – which is the size of the continental U.S. and mostly unexplored and has a different ecosystem, there are so many things in there that can kill you.
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In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.
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I work with my instincts. I don't have a process that I learned in an acting class whereby I break a script down or whereby I do a certain kind of research.
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If you really believe that every three years the market will double, then go and buy shares. I don't believe that.
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Every time someone uses a bathroom and they flush, all the bacteria is shot into the air.
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A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
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Contempt is the only asymmetrical facial expression, so it's easy to spot once you're aware of its signs. One researcher has successfully tracked it in couples as a predictor of divorce. When someone is angry at you, you've still got traction with them, but when they display contempt, you've been dismissed.
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Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer's could make those kind of numbers. It's great work if you can get it.
