Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher – God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher – God complex.
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.
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I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
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The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
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The reason we have cancer and heart disease is the same reason you can't get rid of the wear and tear on your tires on your car: as soon as you use them, you are wearing them away. You can't make eternal tires, and it's the same with the human body.
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In Colombia, women are a huge factor for reconciliation. I have seen many strong women advocating for negotiations. I remember when the paramilitary were active, there were women close to the paramilitary asking for negotiations.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.
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What do you want me to do, rob a bank?
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I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.
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I always put on M.A.C. Prep and Primer before anything.
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Those who want to perpetuate apartheid also seek to divert your attention to the false issue of communism, to send the entire American public on a witch hunt.
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Pair up in threes.
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We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.
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The soul that does not consider the question of the body’s self-sufficiency cannot make itself self-sufficient.
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Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.
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Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.
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It's about time for Lindell White to get back on the floor, expose himself, and get the ball in a scoring position.
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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee. -Jonathan
