Scott Adams Quotes
Science is a good thing. News reporters are good things too. But it's never a good idea to put them in the same room.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.
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In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.
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The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.
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I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn't one of those kids, or around those kids, not at all.
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I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.
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If I lift any weights, I do it more for explosion, but I really use my body weight to build up muscle and strength.
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For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
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I once pitched this show that was just like 'Quantum Leap,' in terms of the set-up, and I got a pass because they said 'Quantum Leap' didn't work, even though it was on for six or seven seasons. You can't say 'Quantum Leap' didn't work!
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By being friends with all, we are not alone.
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I don't watch a lot of TV.
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Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.
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Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire.
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When things go wrong, the standard management strategy is to decide who takes the blame. This should be an underling, as far down the chain as possible, but preferably with some visibility so people know management means business.
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We thus have a kind of see-saw: first, pure persuasion leading to the conversion of a minority; then force exerted to secure that the rest of the community shall be exposed to the right propaganda; and finally a genuine belief on the part of the great majority, which makes the use of force again unnecessary.
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Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
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I'm forever a Pittsburgh Pirates fan. Apparently I've picked the worst baseball team in the world.
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The 'that's right' breakthrough usually doesn't come at the beginning of a negotiation. It's invisible to the counterpart when it occurs, and they embrace what you've said. To them, it's a subtle epiphany.
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No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you.
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I just like a dirty, crumbling city. The Gotham I imagine is enticing and horrifying at the same time.
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Oddly enough, my grandfather probably had more of an influence on me than my father.
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Science is a good thing. News reporters are good things too. But it's never a good idea to put them in the same room.
