Scott Adams Quotes
If you’re going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don’t win, you’re usually no worse off than if you hadn’t played.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.
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As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
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I love to come to L.A. to visit, and then I like to come to rainy old London because it's home.
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Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.
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My parents are OK with me wearing a small heel, up to 1.5 inches high. Heels give me height when I wear such long dresses. For me, they complete the outfit.
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My feet are like something from another age - prehistoric and troll-like. I keep expecting them to talk, they have that much character.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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You have to make them laugh and then make them listen.
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Representative Chris Lee was forced to resign after sending a shirtless picture of himself to a woman on Craigslist. On the bright side, he DID surprise his wife for Valentines Day.
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If you’re going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don’t win, you’re usually no worse off than if you hadn’t played.
