Scott Adams Quotes
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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At a person-to-person level, I think that there's always something to be said for having some empathy for the folks who really, really disagree with you about a given topic.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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I have no regrets. I've got my health.
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I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.
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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
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I know it's silly, but I still think I'm 28.
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As long as I live I will have control over my being.
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It's not going to be enough, until I get out of my chair and walk.
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Ossie Davis is one of my heroes for civil rights and things like that.
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Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else.
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I've been given that gift of working with Jack Nicholson and James Coburn and certain people who just out of nowhere break into stories - talking about working with Alfred Hitchcock or Kubrick. That's my real reward of my career.
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Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
