Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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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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I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.
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On the roads, it is one of those 'might is right' situations. If I see cars coming, I duck out of the way.
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I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I'm generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we're providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we're doing so well on so many of these things. I think it's important to have gratitude for that.
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It's weird to me to see how different everyone's opinion of beauty is.
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Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.
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Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work.
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In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.
