Scott Adams Quotes
Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
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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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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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The Hungarian interest is that, if necessary, we should make loan agreements with the IMF on a regular basis.
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I believe in hard work, not luck factor. The best efforts will reap the best fruits. Nobody can take all the credit. We don't even talk about the efforts of the director, the writers, other technicians, etc. They all together take a film to another level.
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Experiences don't make us damaged goods; it's what we do with those experiences that matters.
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All really worthwhile artists, creators, use the technology of their time, and anybody who doesn't becomes immediately a fossil.
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I feel that recording a song already compromises the magical music one can create in the mind, so the fewer people watering down this process the better.
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There was a common saying in the biz/tech world that 'A's hire A's, and B's hire C's,' the point being that as long as you continued to recruit only the very best people, they would attract others, but as soon as you let your standards slip, the second-raters would begin to sign up third-raters to act as their minions and advance their agendas.
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Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
