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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As one grows older, the sense of separateness is slowly reduced. Old people do not live on an ego level. Their concerns are not about their individuality but about the river of life, the family, the community, the nation, people, animals, nature, life. They can die easily if they are assured that life will continue positively, for they feel part of the river again, and soon they will be part of the ocean. When they are very old, they no longer belong to our time and space, but to all time and all space.
Alexander Lowen
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
J. Cole
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When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.
Barbara Sher
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At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours.
Marian McPartland
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Take the risk and do whatever you can do and try not to get caught. If you do get caught, do it again.
James Frey
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'I’m not insane, sir,' I said. 'I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk.'
John Scalzi
