John Scalzi Quotes
Imagine if every species named itself after its greatest flaw. We could name our species arrogance.
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
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To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.
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Sometimes we do things that are really awful.
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Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.
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Trends come and go, and style evolves. It's important to have pieces of jewelry that are timeless and look chic despite ever-changing fashions.
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Abe Ribicoff believes in that American dream. I believe it from the bottom of my heart, and your sons and daughters, too, can have the American dream come true.
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This is the voice of Vietnam Broadcasting from Hanoi, capitol of the Democratic republic of Vietnam.
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A soulmate is someone who you could spend a great deal of time with just sitting on a sofa and feel happy. You don't need fanfare. You don't need to go out to expensive restaurants.
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I came from a strong jazz/ singer-songwriter/folk influence, but in L.A., I learned how to have a balance between all these genres and R&B music and hip-hop, mixing them all together.
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People should not judge me on what they hear. Let them wait and see me in action. Then they will see how I serve my people.
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I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm beside a star at a fitting, and she looks into the mirror, I don't want to be competing in any way.
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The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.
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I seem to be able to just sort of sink and slide under the radar, which is nice.
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It's so English to hate L.A. I'd like to say I love it, but I don't. It's such a weird place. If it were my choice, I wouldn't spend a day there. Everything shuts at 11. And everyone thinks they're so crazy and wild and liberal, and they're not!
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Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man.
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I have been struck by how families, corporations, and other kinds of institutions are constantly trying to cure their own chronic ills through amputations, “strong medicine,” transfusions, and other forms of surgery, only to find that, even when successful for the moment, the excised tumor returns several years later in “cells” that never knew the “cells” that left.
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Because you didn’t need words when you were sitting in the light.
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Imagine if every species named itself after its greatest flaw. We could name our species arrogance.
