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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I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.
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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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There seems little doubt in my mind that depression, in particular at the severe end of the experience of this condition, is as real a disorder as diabetes is at the severe end of blood glucose levels.
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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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Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.
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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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We need to regularly stop and take stock; to sit down and determine within ourselves which things are worth valuing and which things are not; which risks are worth the cost and which are not. Even the most confusing or hurtful aspects of life can be made more tolerable by clear seeing and by choice.
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When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.
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Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.
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The conclusion I came to was that even if I couldn't sell books, I still liked the process of writing.
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Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.
