Scott Adams Quotes
Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved at any moment. And they all believed their ancestors were simplistic and deluded. What are the odds that you are the first generation of humans who will understand reality ?
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
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I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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I am the despair of my accountant; I am the plastic bags of receipts.
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Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.
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「吾任天下之智力，以道御之，無所不可．」
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I'm not a lawyer- I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah suit and send me to a standards body or the UN to stir up trouble. I spend about three weeks a month on the road doing completely weird stuff like going to Microsoft to talk about DRM.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.
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One great worker equals three not-so-great workers, so it's worth paying terrific people not just for today but to find people that we think have upward mobility to become tomorrow's leaders.
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Relative to the taxi industry, Uber is a sustaining innovation; that is, it makes customers' lives better. Uber targeted mainstream markets with a better service for existing customers, and it succeeded in serving them better than the incumbents.
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I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.
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Money greases the wheel of American democracy and corrupts it all.
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What worries me are these so-called radio stations with program directors who don't play all the different flavors of hip-hop. They should play the old with the new, 24/7, 365 days a year. A lot of these program directors are just jiving around and not playing all the good music for the people.
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As cities have grown rapidly across the nation, many have neglected infrastructure projects and paved over green spaces that once absorbed rainwater.
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When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder.
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XVII Lady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touch until you give me suddenly a smile,shyly obscene (lady i will touch you with my mind.)Touch you,that is all, lightly and you utterly will become with infinite care the poem which i do not write.
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In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.
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Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved at any moment. And they all believed their ancestors were simplistic and deluded. What are the odds that you are the first generation of humans who will understand reality ?
