Scott Westerfeld Quotes
The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.
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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
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There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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When you talking boxing, you talking me.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see the cockpit and controls. I was in awe of the captain, and he stamped my log book, which I still have to this day.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.
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You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac.
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Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
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When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
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I don't really get to see a lot of other comedians, because I work with the same people all the time. The guy I really like is Nick DiPaulo. I love Nick DiPaulo, but again, he's a buddy of mine. But I liked him for a long time. I liked him before he was a buddy of mine.
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I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African – Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table.
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What lead me more or less directly to the special theory of relativity was the conviction that the electromotive force acting on a body in motion in a magnetic field was nothing else but an electric field.
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Nobody could paint eyes like El Greco and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane.
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A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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An iron chain is less difficult to break than a chain of flowers.
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I like to stay fit, because that's when I feel really healthy. But I never worked out for any kind of image. People have said to me, "Do you starve yourself before photo shoots?" And I always say, "No way.! That's what airbrushing is for. I had french fries last night."
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The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.
