Scott Westerfeld Quotes
Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.
Scott Westerfeld
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.
Adam Carolla
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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
Gaby Hoffmann
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
Dana Brunetti
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
Ian Hacking
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We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
Larry Harvey
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Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
Nancy Gibbs
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If you have been vaccinated for polio, mumps, measles, chicken pox, hepatitis, or rabies, it may be too late for you to stand your ethical ground: You have already benefited from fetal-tissue research. This is, after all, a practice that's been legal since the 1930s.
Katha Pollitt
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.
Carl Hiaasen
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If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.
Mackenzie Astin
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Oklahoma is very entrepreneurial.
Isaac Hanson
Hanson
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At a certain point in your career - I mean, part of the answer is a personal answer, which is that at a certain point in your career, it becomes more satisfying to help entrepreneurs than to be one.
Marc Andreesen
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How can a child adhere to school and the notion of secularism when they see their mother rejected from a school outing, stigmatized, left on the sidelines, just because she has a scarf on her head?
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.
J. C. Ryle
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As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.
Taylor Swift
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I'm usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.
Yael Grobglas
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I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.
Ian McShane
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The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game.
Parker Posey
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I know that I'm not a criminal. People say that, but my music speaks for itself. And I believe in my music.
R. Kelly
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Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
Pat Barker
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In one story, he describes a man who is blind in one eye, myopic in the other, too poor to buy eyeglasses, who wears only the frames, with no lenses. When asked why he replies: “It’s better than nothing.
Bel Kaufman
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Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.
Scott Westerfeld