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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You don't build a bond without being present.
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The values my mother taught me were like, if you're going to do something, don't half-ass it. I remember her literally saying that to me. Like the first time I ever heard the term half-ass was coming from my mother's lips. I was probably 8 or 9. If you're going to do something, go ahead and throw 115 percent at it, and if you get 100 percent back, well, there you go - you're perfect.
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By thinking big, we can transform our world.
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What you eat matters. It influences the quality of your life.
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In the beginning there are those who don't quite fit inBut are somehow okay. And then some morningThere are places that suddenly seem wonderful:Weather and water seem wonderful,And the peaceful night sky that arrivesIn time to protect us, like a swordCutting the blue cloak of a prince.
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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.
