Adam Scott Quotes
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The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.
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I feel like every five to seven years I really need to put myself in this position of discomfort and exploration, just to survive. Otherwise I feel like I'm falling asleep, like I'll go crazy if I don't do it.
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Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.
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My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.
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'Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds; it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.
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A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.
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Working across the aisle, I helped pass laws exposing business dealings in Iran, cracking down on Iranian human rights abusers, and applying crippling sanctions to Iran's oil and gas industries.
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I entered medicine to use it as a vehicle for social change.
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If you don't have dialysis, absolutely, you will die. Dialysis is actually keeping me alive.
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Agatha Christie? We go back years, me and Ag. She's a … she's just a … she's dead, isn't she?
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Turbulence is the beginning of a fruitful process of transformation.
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Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than Sargent thinks. But he went on to agree that impressionists had noted how strong
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With that kind of money, I could have invaded some country.
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To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.
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I'm all about peace. I'm all about unity. I'm all about love.
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We still have to overcome the notion that a clarinet squeaks. People need to remember what a beautiful instrument it is, including in popular music.
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No man should be on Facebook. It's an invasion of everyone's privacy. I really cannot stand it.
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I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.
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I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.
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The brain speculates but the heart knows.
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When I was born, my family was so poor that there was no money to buy food. So the church bought groceries for us - there wasn't any kind of privilege.
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My ribs ache from all the texts I'll never make time for.
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As a longtime practitioner of yoga and a person who's been involved in physical fitness my whole life, I can tell you, yoga helps you achieve altered states of consciousness. It is not just stretching. The only way you can say that it's stretching is if you haven't done it, or that you haven't done it rigorously for a long period of time.
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I thought I would be a dramatic actor - everyone starts that way.
