Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
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I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
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You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.
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One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.
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Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.
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The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account.
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People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium.
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Nobody ever said I'm a simple personality.
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The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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If you live in the overlapping world of politics and media, as I am learning, anything less than full transparency can potentially do you in.
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Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me.
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Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?
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Fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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A beautiful 35-year old ain't as good-looking as an ugly 19-year old.
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In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.
