Scott Westerfeld Quotes
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Public schooling fosters our common identity as Americans sharing a land of diversity. It promotes the American ideal of opportunity for all, not just some. It cultivates the civic values of respecting individuals as well as collective responsibility.
Randi Weingarten -
It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
Everything we personally own that’s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we’re either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.
Yvon Chouinard -
Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.
Andrew Motion -
Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.
Jennifer Donnelly -
Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.
Albert Einstein
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Who can control his fate?
William Shakespeare -
Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
It’s funny how one summer can change everything.
Sarah Dessen -
Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
Moliere -
I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.
Hedda Hopper -
I have been misunderstood more than I've been understood in my life.
Amy Koppelman
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Until he announced his immigration policy last week, Obama had the support of most Hispanic voters - but not the enthusiasm they had shown for him in 2008. That may be changing in part because of the decision not to deport young immigrants whose undocumented parents brought them here as children.
Mara Liasson -
I stopped showering ever since I realized water causes people to drown. I cannot risk being so close to something that can murder me. Do you let killers into your house? Oh, but you let a murderer come out of your own faucet. Hypocrite.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace -
I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.
M. Night Shyamalan -
I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to have access to, their multi-dimensionality at every moment. That doesn't imply people aren't multi-dimensional.
Ben Lerner -
Your not alone, Tally. Don't pretend you are
Scott Westerfeld