John Scalzi Quotes
He’s almost certainly planned for the contingency of being caught. He’s rich and he’s got more lawyers than some countries have people.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.
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When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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Why would you envy a man who doesn't know the names of all the planets, is a 'high functioning' sociopath, and has no friends? Because Sherlock Holmes thinks in all the ways we wish we could.
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I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.
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Our external environment no longer seems to have any firm boundaries, any limits, or any positive cues about when to stop consuming anything. I mean, there is a reason that people get fat - it's easy and cheap to get high-calorie, tasty food.
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I am not a morning person. I like to sleep in.
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He’s almost certainly planned for the contingency of being caught. He’s rich and he’s got more lawyers than some countries have people.
