Scott Adams Quotes

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Scott Adams

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YouFindTroubleDoneShowHow

People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-five who's falling in love or getting divorced? Why does the leading role always have to be a woman who's twenty-three or twenty-eight?

Melanie Griffith

LoveCharacterWomanPeopleSeeing

It's OK to stay at a job that you don't enjoy, because you're scared.

John Rampton

JobEnjoyYouScaredStayBecause

Children need stimulation and stability. That can come from grandparents, cousins, teachers, nannies, childcare centres - as long as they engage with the children and are really fond of them. There are also times when children need to be left alone to learn to be independent and to encourage their imaginary friends.

Tony Buzan

AloneChildrenLearnFriendsLong

People buy box sets, and they sit for a whole weekend with a computer on their lap in bed, and they watch two seasons back-to-back of a show. They are invested in the person within that arc or the dynamics of those people - the relationships - and it doesn't matter to them if they're watching it on an iPhone or a cinema screen.

Robin Wright

PeopleWeekendSeasonsCinemaPerson

Years go by. I go here, I go there, I have all sorts of adventures, and then I look back and say, 'Wow that's kind of an unusual way to live your life.'

Roman Coppola

LifeLiveLookBackGoKind

If a company is not doing well, it doesn't necessarily mean that it is not a good company.

Dilip Shanghvi

GoodGood CompanyDoingMeanCompany

I think you do need two terms as a president.

Chelsea Handler

ThinkYouPresidentNeedTwoTerms

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

Bonnie Raitt

MusicGreatCutArtsGreat Thing

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

Allan Bloom

PoliticalHeritageNowSeriously

I think some women try to make you feel you're not all female because you haven't given birth. There are a lot of prejudices. Some women think women who have animals are deeply sad, because what they really want is a child. Mind you, there's probably an element of truth in that.

Alison Goldfrapp

WomenTruthSadChildMindThink

Pharmaceuticals are regulated. Pesticides are, as well as food, save the occasional salmonella outbreak. But chemicals and their witch's brew of ingredients continue to augment American industry without anyone quite knowing their makeup and possible toxicity. And that needs to change.

Suzy Shuster

ChangeFoodMakeupAmericanPossible

In my mind, a bubble or over-hyped cycle is driven by something good happening, which is used as a baseline for the next good thing.

Sunil Nagaraj

GoodMindBubbleNextSomething

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