John Scalzi Quotes
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.
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I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
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Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
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The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
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If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts.
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I would tell the young Francesco Totti to repeat everything that the older Totti did - if he's able to!
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But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
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I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we push poor people into homeownership. And it's exactly the opposite of the case. We were trying to prevent those kinds of bad loans.
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I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.
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Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.
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Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
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In a fascist system, it's not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can't tell real news from fake, they give up their demands for accountability bit by bit.
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It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.
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History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.
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Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.
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For both excessive and insufficient exercise destroy one's strength, and both eating and drinking too much or too little destroy health, whereas the right quantity produces, increases and preserves it. So it is the same with temperance, courage and the other virtues. This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.
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...he who always hopes for the best becomes old, deceived by life, and he who is always prepared for the worst becomes old prematurely; but he who has faith, retains eternal youth.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.
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The failure mode of clever is 'asshole.'
