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.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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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.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
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DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.
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Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
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I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself!
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I haven't done fillers or Botox for ages. There comes a point where you have to match bits of you with the other bits; otherwise, you get a terribly random situation.
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When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.
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People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
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Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.
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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.
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I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.
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A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
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We were suffering a standard gray London drizzle, the sort that makes it clear that it can keep it up all day if needs be.
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My system uses the speed of components in cameras and cell phones to get four inches of depth through the brain.
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An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head.
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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.
