Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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I'm Australian! How much more alpha can you get?
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I am excited to run in the community where my wife and I work, where my daughters graduated and my son attends high school, where my family goes to synagogue, and where I have spent so much time working for and with the people of South Florida.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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If I could marry my motorcycle, I'd roll her right up to the altar.
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It's weird. I don't really have goals. I just try to make sure I'm enjoying what I'm doing. Once I start to get sick of it, the next thing becomes obvious.
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I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
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One of the things performers worry about is who you follow. But if I can't top what I heard in the last hour. ... There wasn't one iota of humor! You guys are so serious.
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They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice- 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'
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I don't go to parties even when I'm invited. I've always been an 80-year-old woman inside. I remember going to my first school dance petrified. I just wanted to leave. Like, This is cool, but I'm ready to go home now.
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The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.
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For this, to be sure, from the child's primer down to the last newspaper, every theater and every movie house, every advertising pillar and every billboard, must be pressed into the service of this one great mission, until the timorous prayer of our present parlor patriots: 'Lord, make us free!' is transformed in the brain of the smallest boy into the burning plea: 'Almighty God, bless our arms when the time comes; be just as thou hast always been; judge now whether we be deserving of freedom; Lord, bless our battle!"
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This man (FreddieMercury) truly possessed the greatest voice in the history of rock. Journalists, culture experts and analysts have already made several hundred comments on this topic and nothing can be added here.
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I'm a dumb-ass, and I poisoned myself for years. Now I understand things better.
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Even our beliefs have become trend statements. We don’t even believe things because we believe them anymore. We only believe things because they are cool things to believe.
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I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what you could do with a story and what a good novel is - literary value and subtext and irony and everything.
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Fascism is actually the work of the synergistic effort of big government and big corporations working together to stifle the people. And that's what we have in America today.
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The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy.
