Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
Otto Dix -
I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
Sam Smith -
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
Vince Lombardi -
I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
Ban Ki-moon -
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
Ramakrishna -
As a youngster, when I started writing and stuff, I did actually write more from other people's perspectives. When I hit 18 and something happened to me that hurt me, I discovered that writing the truth is really therapeutic and amazing.
Sam Smith -
At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.
Malala Yousafzai -
When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
D. A. Pennebaker -
We are so isolated in our own little worlds, in our own little geographies, that it's pretty hard to understand where someone else is coming from. And so I think that we have to really think about what that means as a country and, frankly, whether this segregation that we have is durable over the long run.
J. D. Vance -
If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.
Abraham Lincoln
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Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.
J. P. Morgan -
Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
Abbie Hoffman -
To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.
Barbara W. Tuchman -
If there is a true secret to the universe, it is this...these first few seconds of warmth and entry and complete acceptance by one’s beloved.
Dan Simmons -
CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
Arthur C. Clarke -
I'm like most people. We just concentrate on the present. I live right where the film is going through the film projector and it hits the light.
Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
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Technologists come at a problem from the point of view that the system is working a certain way, and if I engage in that system and actually change the rules of the system, I can make it work a different way.
Pierre Omidyar -
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
Joseph Conrad -
Today, the origin of 90% of all the edible food Gambians consume are from places they have never heard of.
Yahya Jammeh -
The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax.
John Roberts -
One doesn't love any of the things of Summer as much as one does the things of Spring.
Anne Douglas Sedgwick -
The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit.
Scott Westerfeld