Scott Westerfeld Quotes
As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way that felt like choosing but was actually the dance of little gears--neurons and hormones bubbling up into decisions like clockwork. You don't use your body; it uses you.Scott Westerfeld
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
Abraham A. Ribicoff -
DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.
Adam Cohen -
Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
Flavor Flav -
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
Walt Whitman -
The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
Fatema Mernissi -
We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
Lamar Alexander
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People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
Sam Smith -
Not much is done to promote non-cricket sports in India. There is a lot of talk about how sports needs to reach the grassroots and how it should be introduced as a subject in school, but nothing has been done to that effect.
Gagan Narang -
When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.
Eckhart Tolle -
The end of a story must be stronger rather than weaker than the beginning, since it is the end which contains the denouement or culmination and which will leave the strongest impression upon the reader.
H. P. Lovecraft -
People have to start realizing that money is just a fiction, an idea.
Cameron Winklevoss -
For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciousness with 'black.' Terms such as 'welfare queen' and 'culture of poverty' became associated uniquely with the social maladies of African Americans in urban ghettos, despite the fact that poor whites outnumbered poor blacks.
J. D. Vance
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
Paracelsus -
Did I have a responsibility to discuss issues? Absolutely. Bobby Dylan was discussing issues – Disney wasn’t.
Ralph Bakshi -
Nothing was more likely to aggravate the difficulties of the present situation than any suggestions that our ultimate objective was to unite France, Italy and ourselves against Germany.
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax -
I think I drift toward sad love songs.
Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.
Joanna Lumley -
I have been interested in beauty from an early age. My sister used to put face masks on me and do me up with my mother's makeup!
Hannah Bronfman
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There's a lot to learn from the family of a soldier as much as the soldier. Actually, 'warrior' is a better word.
Ben Foster -
I enjoy thelove I receive from my fans and my audience. But I think I know what is realfor me and what is not.
Aamir Khan -
I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious.
Albert Einstein -
Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
Samantha Power -
As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around in a way that felt like choosing but was actually the dance of little gears--neurons and hormones bubbling up into decisions like clockwork. You don't use your body; it uses you.
Scott Westerfeld