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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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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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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It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.
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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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Marriage is encouraged in China, not by the profitableness of children, but by the liberty of destroying them.
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I grew up with a concept of cinema as a directorial thing, meaning the director is allowed to sail the ship. Not a dictatorial thing.
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Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
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The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.
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New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!
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Since I became part of the zeitgeist, I've been called a sellout many times.
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Have a little faith in me, Volger." "I have great faith, tempered with vast annoyance.
