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.
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It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.
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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.
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Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.
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Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.
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Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.
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Who can control his fate?
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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
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It’s funny how one summer can change everything.
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Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.
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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.
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I have been misunderstood more than I've been understood in my life.
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The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.
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Wherever and whenever I sing, if there is only one spiritual on a program, people will talk about two things afterward, and one of them will be the spiritual. What I bring to this is the best of my classical training - not all of it. I apply what is appropriate.
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I just got into it like a lot of people through the rock 'n' roll bands in the late '60s that turned to country music, like The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield, but particularly through The Byrds because of Gram Parsons, Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman (with their 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo). They kind of introduced English kids to Merle Haggard and George Jones and the Louvins (brothers Charlie and Ira).
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I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
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I’m someone who’d rather understand reality than play pretends.
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Your not alone, Tally. Don't pretend you are
