Scott Westerfeld Quotes
Have a little faith in me, Volger." "I have great faith, tempered with vast annoyance.
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My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.
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I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.
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There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
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My first introduction to New Orleans was from the air, flying high over the city with a view of the land - and water - below.
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Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
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If you stand up for women, then don't bash me.
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The purse strings tie us to our kind.
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Let me just make this point, John...We're not campaigning anymore. The election's over.
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Poems get to the point where they are stronger than you are. They come up from some other depth and they find a place on the page. You can never find that depth again, that same kind of authority and voice. I might feel I would like to change something about them, but they’re still stronger than I am and I cannot.
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How commentators each dark passage shun,And hold their farthing candle to the sun.
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I would recommend to her and Mr. D. the simple regimen of separate rooms.
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Oh please...As a standup, I tried to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room. Not necessarily in that order.
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„…there will be no peace in the tormented world, only a programmed and systematic series of wars and calamities-until the plotters have gained their objective: an exhausted world willing to submit to a planned Marxist economy and total and meek enslavement- in the name of peace.'
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Dad was synonymous with his charm and wit and grace, and it was sort of the perfect way to go for him.
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I don't think I've ever hosted anything in my life.
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There's so much music from Led Zeppelin that I think I overlooked when I was a kid because I didn't understand it, so now to revisit it at an older age, I have a deeper appreciation for it.
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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
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Our approach to medicine is very 19th-century. We are still in the dark ages. We really need to get to the molecular level so that we are no longer groping about in the dark.
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My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.
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When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.
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Have a little faith in me, Volger." "I have great faith, tempered with vast annoyance.
