Scott Westerfeld Quotes
It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.
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You either get better, or you don't progress.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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With 'Girls'... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it's always the imperfection I'm always more attracted to.
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But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
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I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There's something in the milk. They must have special cows.
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All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.
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I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.
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The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
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Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
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Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.
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I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.
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When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.
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The less I talk about being black, the better.
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Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
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Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.
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I think what Trump will be judged on by the folks that voted for him... is whether things start to get a little bit better over the next few years. And ultimately, that doesn't depend on whether Jeff Sessions is the attorney general.
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I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.
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Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.
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Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
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Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but it's got a long time.
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I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.
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It doesn't take much convincing to make someone believe they're better than everyone else.
