Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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For the first time I'm free to be myself.
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I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.
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I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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Pain is never permanent.
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I don't want to be on anyone's board. I just want to have good investments.
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Over the years, I have seen the power of the oceans to excite, feed, and sustain people. I have also seen them undergo a growing onslaught of attacks, from destructive fishing practices to rising acidification.
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But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.
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Italy has no colonial past in Iran.
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Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.
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At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
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We should perceive that man's period of historical existence, a period so short that his physical constitution has not been altered in the slightest degree, is insufficient to allow of any considerable mental change.
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It's cool that I'm 20 and am on the cover of the video game. A lot of kids play hockey, and a few get drafted, and only a few get to be on the cover. It's a great feeling.
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There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
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There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.
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I really enjoy sailing on Lake Geneva because I can just look at the shore and see my wife having a barbecue with the kids.
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Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.
