Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
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Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
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Before and after my debut, I've helped out other manga artists from time to time, but I have no experience of being exclusively an assistant. Nor have I done individual or self-published manga.
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The truth is we just have a normal life, because we do have a church where our children are growing up pastor's children. And we just try to keep it really normal.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
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By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit.
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I hate personal competition, and so each time in my career I came in a field where it was highly competitive, I gave up.
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Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much later than other continents because of the interruption of Africa's own historical development by the colonization of Africa by Europe.
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And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?
