Scott Adams Quotes
Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones. But that's O.K. because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems.
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.
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Basically, I'm living the life of an actress in L.A. And I've recently had some pretty good fortune.
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The year I turned 16, I spent the weeks before Christmas dropping hints to my parents about how much I wanted - no, needed - my own transportation.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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In this life, all you need is for someone to believe in you.
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I like meeting directors. It can be helpful because sometimes when you meet filmmakers you find out if you like them and if they like you, and that is important in terms of considering a role. Choosing a role is all about whether I relate to the role and the story really. That's the criteria.
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In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.
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I just try to let myself really focus on the work that's ahead of me and what my job is and how I bring something to life.
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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
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There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life.
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Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones. But that's O.K. because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems.
