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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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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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 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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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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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
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When I worked in the Obama White House, people in national security positions had been uneasy making broad public arguments, particularly about political matters.
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Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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Extremism is no more the monopoly of Islam than it is the monopoly of other religions, including Christianity.
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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.
