John Scalzi Quotes
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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Midi is my hobby.
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If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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If I fell into one relationship after another with men who were either emotionally tuned out and unavailable or hotheaded and controlling, or both, it was because I was lacking in good sense about men.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother.
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St. Louis is closer to Minneapolis than Milwaukee is.
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I'm thrilled with my body of work.
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If I read too much or know too much it's not because I want to talk about it, it's only because it's interesting for me.
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We still don't know what evolutionary significance to attach to it, but it is at the very least interesting that a telomere gene is related to obesity.
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You are sufficiently like me to officially be interesting.
