Scott Adams Quotes

There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.

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• Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Knows

• I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Like
  • Things
  • Characters

• I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Time
  • Doing
  • Part

• I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Home
  • Friends
  • Choose

• I hope to get out before they start football next year.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Hope
  • Football
  • Start

• Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Great
  • Women
  • Strong

• Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • May
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• I want to know what it's like to play in a Super Bowl and win one. My career will be great without it. But, personally, selfishly, I want to know what it feels like.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Great
  • Want
  • Career

• I've been fighting amidst a lot of opposition from both Hillary Clinton as well as some Republicans who wanted to send arms to the allies of ISIS. ISIS rides around in a billion dollars worth of U.S. Humvees. It's a disgrace. We've got to stop - we shouldn't fund our enemies, for goodness sakes.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Stop
  • Fighting
  • Goodness

• I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Play
  • Always
  • Start

• I had no interest in steroids. I didn't need them, and I didn't want them. I never wanted them. From the get-go, I've frequently mouthed off about their negative impact on the game.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Game
  • Want
  • Negative

• Very obsessed fans do ask actors to attend their weddings.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Fans
  • Very
  • Ask

• Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Produce
  • Extraordinary

• Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Why
  • Want
  • Technology

• Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Work
  • Passion

• I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • House
  • Ever
  • Transfer

• Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Music
  • Fashion
  • Rock

• I love wearing dresses that hug the body, but then, at the Oscars, I had a big dress, and I really loved that. It's a style I never thought I would wear, but I saw the dress, and I was like, 'Oh my God, that's it!'

  

  Camila Alves
  • God
  • Love
  • Style

• Learn from failure. If you are an entrepreneur and your first venture wasn’t a success, welcome to the club!

  

  Richard Branson
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Learn

• Each person has unspeakable distress. When I remember the past, annoying, I cry; The reality of today is too cruel, too severe, and doesn't even offer me a dream; Imagining the future brings me yet another kind of tears

  

  Aya Kito
  • Reality
  • Distress
  • Imagining

• It is unjust, and sometimes very untrue, though it is a common theory, to hold that it is sacrifices which make the beauty of a combination, and that the combination is prettier by the magnitude of the sacrifices.

  

  Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
  • Beauty
  • Theory
  • Combination

• I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism …

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Believe
  • Wisdom
  • Fight

• There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Problems
  • Personal
  • Application