Scott Westerfeld Quotes
Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.
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I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
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I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.
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It's always a thrill to wear the flag and ride for Canada in any competition, but especially the Olympics.
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He who knows himself is enlightened.
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It's not easy to tick me off... I don't get angry often. But you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids; that'll do it every time. Donald, you're a sniveling coward and leave Heidi the hell alone.
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Science has no prejudices - though scientists often do. Science is like figures: they do not lie themselves, but the men who figure are often the greatest liars in the world.
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Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only a vulgar superstition, but even a criminal work. Understand that this work, far from assuring the well-being of humanity is only a lie, a more or less unconscious hypocrisy, camouflaging the lowest passions we posses.
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The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.
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I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.
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We cannot change the politics issue until we change the culture around it; until we talk about what parents do for their kids as an act of love. That's a cultural conversation.
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The wisest men are wise to the full in death.
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There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place.
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Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.
