John Scalzi Quotes
'I’m not insane, sir,' I said. 'I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.'
John Scalzi
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
Isaac Asimov
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
H. L. Mencken
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
Aaron Paul
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Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?
Vanessa Paradis
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We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
Paddy Ashdown
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I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.
Zoe Foster Blake
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I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.
Zach Braff
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
Gary Herbert
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
Aaron Neville
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Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
Camilo Jose Cela
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
Natalie Coughlin
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
Edie Falco
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My expectations for myself were never high. I had a very unusual way of writing songs and of thinking about music. I wasn't at all like Bob Dylan or Simon and Garfunkel. I was completely different - I didn't have a David Geffen at my side.
Don McLean
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As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.
Jeffrey Kluger
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Netflix is so amazing because they take chances. They'll take a risk, be edgy, be quirky.
Emma Walton Hamilton
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If evolution was worth its salt, it should've evolved something better than 'survival of the fittest.' I think a better idea would be 'survival of the wittiest.' At least, that way, creatures that didn't survive could've died laughing.
Lily Tomlin
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Don't let your mind stop you from having a good time.
Jason Mraz
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'I’m not insane, sir,' I said. 'I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.'
John Scalzi
