Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
Walt Mossberg
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
Kailash Kher
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
Karl Lagerfeld
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The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.
Lata Mangeshkar
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
Walt Disney
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My coldest days, my darkest days, ain't no sun out, all I got is my fans. They the only people I ride for. Believe it or not, if you're a real Fat Joe fan, a Terror Squad fan, I do it for ya'll.
Fat Joe
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
Barry Eisler
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
Damon Lindelof
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People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
Barry Humphries
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I love shopping! It's my release sometimes.
Carli Lloyd
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Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.
Ralph Adams Cram
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he said if enough people-a stadium full, maybe-were to concentrate on one thing, such as setting a tree afire in the woods, that the tree would ignite of its own accord. I toyed with the idea of asking everyone below to concentrate on setting Tom Robinson free, but
Harper Lee
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If they cry for their parents, they are beaten severely, sometimes hanged upside down from trees and even branded or burned with cigarettes.
Kailash Satyarthi
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One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.
Dan Savage
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I always swing at the ball with all my might. I hit or miss big and when I miss I know it long before the umpire calls a strike on me, for every muscle in my back, shoulders and arms is groaning, 'You missed it.' And believe me, it is no fun to miss a ball that hard. Once I put myself out of the game for a few days by a miss like that.
Babe Ruth
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Camped on a tropic riverside,One day he missed his loving bride.She had, the guide informed him later,Been eaten by an alligator.Professor Twist could not but smile.'You mean,' he said, 'a crocodile.'
Ogden Nash
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I’m actually quite tired because Threepio is an exhausting character - he’s always very tense, he’s always slightly on the edge of panic. That’s why he’s funny, because he’s always in the wrong place. I record each piece three times in a row, so the director can choose without interrupting too much.
Anthony Daniels
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Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.
Hans Hofmann
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Some one has said that we are moving so fast that when plans are being made to perform some great feat, these plans are broken into by a youth who enters and says, 'I have done it.'
Elbert Hubbard
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Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.
Abraham Lincoln
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I like my women very green; you know, eco-friendly.
John Boyega
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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
Scott Westerfeld