Scott Adams Quotes
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It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.
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Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.
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Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations.
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I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact. My business manager drafts the replies, and then I pop in to the office and sign them, 'Bilbo!'
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I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.
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I just want to compete and do what I love.
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I have to be careful not to do so many comedy airhead roles from now on. I've turned down a couple already.
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It's beauty that captures your attention. Personality which captures your heart.
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I was probably five when I first picked up a camera. My mom had an Olympus OM-10 that she carried around to document our family photos. And I just always loved it.
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I don't like to go into the studio with all the songs worked out and planned before hand ... you've got to give the band something to use its imagination on as well. That can make a very ordinary song come alive into something totally different ... the X-factor - so important in rock and roll - which is the feel.
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Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.
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When we live our lives authentically, we discover our true place in the world for the first time.
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To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
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You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless.
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I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.
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Out in the Pool certain other boats caught the eye... each carried a bright fire amidships, in a brazier, beside a man, two small barrels of beer, and a very large handbell. The men were purlmen, Grandfather Nat told me, selling hot beer in the cold mornings - to the men on the colliers, or on any other craft thereabout.
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Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this purpose [scattering experiments]. Much important information about the target atoms or nuclei or their assemblage has been obtained in this way. In witness of this importance one can point to the unusual concentration of scattering enthusiasts among earlier Nobel Laureate physicists. One could say that physicists just love to perform or interpret scattering experiments.
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It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.
