Scott Westerfeld Quotes
I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
Quotes to Explore
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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It just feels good to know the work I did, people like it and love it - and continue to like and love it. It makes me feel real good that, after 20 years, 'Regulate' is still in heavy rotation all over the United States and all over the world.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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I think chicken and horse meat are ideal food because it's very easy to digest.
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I have a couture body.
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I grew up thinking that singing was my security.
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I just want to give the people 100% of myself as an artist.
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I exist as I am, that is enough.
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As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the highway' philosophy, you realize it's all about compromising and finding some sort of middle ground that everyone can live with.
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Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.
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At the end of the day, things don't get better unless you continue to invest in your workforce. And I've not heard any Republican talk about education and the investment in the future workforce.
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If you can serve everyone who visits you, you must be doing well in business.
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In the late '90s, R&B was dominant in the radio, and the white kids were taking it mainstream.
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Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
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I was scheduled to graduate from high school in 1943, but I was in a course that was supposed to give us four years of high school plus a year of college in our four years. So by the end of my junior year, I would have had enough credits to graduate from high school.
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I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
