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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• If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Hard Work

• 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

• There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Know
  • Find
  • Racism

• 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

• My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Parents
  • Strong
  • Discipline

• The French? Upper class. Now, this is not all of France, it's just the French upper class, and it's very true. That's the way that they are, yes.

  

  Leslie Caron
  • True
  • Way
  • Class

• People waiting for an elevator don't know what to do, standing with strangers. There is nothing to do. Its an uneasy time. Some press the button repeatedly as though it would help.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Time
  • Help

• Cities and towns throughout central and northwest Connecticut have strong industrial histories and are now in the process of transitioning into new sources of economic growth. I'm doing what I can to be a strong partner in these efforts.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • Strong
  • Growth
  • Partner

• They [formulae 1.10 - 1.12 of Ramanujan] must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have had the imagination to invent them.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • True
  • Imagination
  • Being True

• 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