Scott Westerfeld Quotes
You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with all the cities coming awake at last. Together, you're more than enough to change the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.
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Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
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I'm not in the business of politics.
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I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer.
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Social Security is fundamentally strong.
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While we can learn from U.S. models, we certainly can't practice them.
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I don't think I can sell to our voters in our district that there's nothing to cut in the federal budget. Nobody, I think, sees that or would agree with that.
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People love to see reactions, they love to see emotions that come about.
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Philosophy, is the talk on a cereal box. Religion, is a smile on a dog.
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We do not have an American culture. We have a white American culture and a black American culture. So when those two groups try to get together, it's very difficult because they each feel like they have the right to their culture.
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When I'm writing a record, I kind of don't listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.
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The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.
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People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.
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You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with all the cities coming awake at last. Together, you're more than enough to change the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.
