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.
Nancy Gibbs -
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.
Gavin MacLeod -
A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
Zig Ziglar -
Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
Edmund Hillary -
It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
Navjot Singh Sidhu -
If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.
Yahya Jammeh
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I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
Barbara Walters -
Pain is never permanent.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
I don't want to be on anyone's board. I just want to have good investments.
Nathan Kirsh -
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.
Frances Beinecke -
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.
Hans Kung -
Italy has no colonial past in Iran.
Paolo Gentiloni
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Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
Barbara Kingsolver -
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.
H. P. Lovecraft -
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.
Patrick Kane -
There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.
Fiorello LaGuardia -
There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.
Camille Paglia
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The sense of the joy in anything is the sense of Christ.
Caryll Houselander -
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde -
For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system.
Henry Paulson -
Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.
Scott Westerfeld