Scott Adams Quotes
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When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.
Kapil Sibal -
More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.
Dan Lipinski -
The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.
Salvatore Quasimodo -
Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say 'You did so much better than I thought you would.' So there's an added element of surprise in film, different than in music.
T.I. -
If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
Abu Bakr -
I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
Lao Tzu -
I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
Paige VanZant -
I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
Sam Shepard -
Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.
Oscar de la Renta -
I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.
Laura Mvula
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The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.
Daniel Gilbert -
I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.
Dan Jenkins -
Gun violence has cost us too many political leaders, and hardly ever the worst ones.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I have to tell people that they are not responsible for their behavior. They're not creating it; they're not initiating anything. It's all found somewhere else. That's an awful lot to relinquish.
B. F. Skinner -
Sometimes, promoting economic development means accepting the Herculean task of moving and modernizing a prison.
Gary Herbert -
We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks.
Taylor Sheridan
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I know that the only reason American landscapes sometimes disappoint me is that, just a century before I was born, the great rivers and prairies and wild forests still existed. And they were sublime.
John Burnside -
I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
Dana Snyder -
I love sports because it takes me away from reality, and I tell people, 'No matter how bad your life is, if you are having problems at home, you are having problems at work, that's the beauty of sports.'
Charles Barkley -
My friends are the ones I've had since primary school. They're really cool and such a good bunch of people. They came to every one of my gigs before all of this happened, you know; they were there in the smoky pubs, wherever.
Leona Lewis -
We sometimes let ourselves be rated too much by others - we put so much emphasis on a paycheck or what a magazine says.
Brad Pitt -
Home is pretty utopian.
Scott Adams