John Scalzi Quotes
What’s the point of being in charge if you can’t indulge in pointless favoritism.
John Scalzi
Quotes to Explore
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Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.
Carly Fiorina
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The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.
Zaha Hadid
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When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
Dalai Lama
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Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.
Faith Hill
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I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
Kamala Harris
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My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.
G. Willow Wilson
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God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.
Orson Pratt
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I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.
Galveston Giant
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More than 13,000 Malaysians travel to the U.K. to study in British universities every year.
Najib Razak
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I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the qualifying meets at the local levels. Then I try to go to the regional competitions, and of course I'm there in Hershey, Pa., in August for the North American final.
Rafer Johnson
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Our generation has taken to the cosmetic use of pesticides and I think, perhaps unwittingly, not fully understanding the dangers it represents to ourselves and, most importantly, to our children.
Dalton McGuinty
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My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.
Gary Lineker
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To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.
Ban Ki-moon
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I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
Jack Kevorkian
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The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.
Randy Johnson
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Tomorrow is only found in the calendar of fools.
Og Mandino
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Football, to me, is a passion, more than a game. It is everything. But more than anything, it is love for Roma. I have always been Roma. There has never been anything else.
Francesco Totti
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You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.
Patrice Leconte
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The nuclear bomb will turn warfare into the juggling of images. (p. 360)
Marshall McLuhan
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When a man is shooting a handgun, it's just like he is shooting because that's his job, and he has no other choice. It's no good. When a girl is shooting a handgun, it's really something.
Hayao Miyazaki
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I have an unexplainable belief that I will never cause harm or be harmed while at sea. Because of this, I feel secure at sea: I feel secure in the ice, I feel secure in the storms, and I feel secure in confrontations.
Paul Watson
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The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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What’s the point of being in charge if you can’t indulge in pointless favoritism.
John Scalzi
