John Scalzi Quotes

Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht and William Goldman, and journalists/columnists like H.L. Mencken, Mike Royko and Molly Ivins.

John Scalzi

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N.W.A. were the first great rap audio documentarians of the problems in our inner cities.

Jerry Heller

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When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.

John Mayer

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I was discovered at 16, so all I've done is be a communicator and an entertainer all my life, and my energy is who I am in real life.

Mauro Ranallo

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Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

Robert Herrick

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The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.

Michael Dell

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It is my belief that it is not the fact that he traveled as much as he did during the past few months as much as what he said and how he said it that hurt him.

Robert Teeter

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After almost half a billion dollars spent on the computer registration system for Obamacare, the website coughed, sputtered, and appeared to descend into an immediate coma as millions tried to log on. One reason is that the Obama administration never fully tested it.

Jonathan Turley

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A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.

Douglas Leone

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I can't imagine myself not working. And I hope my daughter will work when she's older.

Delphine Arnault

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I couldn't tell a story if my life depended on it. I'm the world's worst joke-teller.

David Shields

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It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

William Penn

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When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.

Richard Marx

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