Adam Scott Quotes

I remember, the first time I played a parent was - I did a guest spot on 'Veronica Mars,' and they were like, 'OK, and this is your daughter,' and there's this little girl standing there. And I remember thinking, 'OK, this is weird... I guess I'm old enough to have a daughter.'

Adam Scott

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• There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • World
  • Girl

• Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • People
  • God
  • Rebellion

• Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Time
  • Great
  • Interesting

• I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Girl
  • Wrong
  • Choir

• You have to get comfortable giving up control, and you find people who do things better than you do. Quora now does better with the team we have built.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Giving

• Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Person
  • Dust

• I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham Theatre Workshop in my hometown.

  

  Olivia Cooke
  • Acting
  • Theatre
  • Doing

• In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

  

  Florence King
  • Moral
  • Snake
  • Bee

• American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Country
  • American
  • Problems

• I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.

  

  Feist
  • Time
  • Studios
  • Proper

• There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • People
  • Trying
  • Pressure

• Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Music
  • True
  • Man

• Sometimes, once a fight starts, you have to do what you have to do to win.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Sometimes
  • Win
  • Fight

• The notion of being on a cop show was appealing, just because it's one of those tick boxes in a career.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Career
  • Boxes
  • Just Because

• Many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem because the science doesn't back them up.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Science
  • Problem

• Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Art
  • Fast
  • Bowling

• I grew up watching 'Grease,' and 'Grease 2.' I fantasized about walking through school halls and busting out in a song. At that time, I was too much of a chicken to do so. I'd love the challenge now.

  

  J. D. Pardo
  • Time
  • School
  • Song

• It's patently impossible for a Muslim character to represent 'all Muslims.'

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Character
  • Impossible

• I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.'

  

  America Ferrera
  • Single
  • Chicago

• The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • High
  • Father
  • Daughter

• We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Interest
  • Empathy
  • Neighbors

• I'd been wanting to try a YA novel for years because I saw how exciting the genre was and how amazing, hungry, and curious the readers were.

  

  Jeff Giles
  • Amazing

• I remember, the first time I played a parent was - I did a guest spot on 'Veronica Mars,' and they were like, 'OK, and this is your daughter,' and there's this little girl standing there. And I remember thinking, 'OK, this is weird... I guess I'm old enough to have a daughter.'

  

  Adam Scott
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Remember