Spider Robinson Quotes
Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends.
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In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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The Hindu nationalists see a religion near perfection save for the tampering of Muslims and Christians. So they fall upon these groups, rather than try to reform their own practices by drawing on India's sophisticated philosophical traditions.
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.
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Sea spaghetti looks like dark fettuccine and has a similar texture - you can get it in health food stores or online.
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Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind the actors. We've always been very secondary.
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I know it's bad to generalize, but when you think about billionaires, you just think this guy is going to walk into a room and just demand things to be a certain way.
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When a role seems fun it's easy to play. It kind of comes organically.
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Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit, we'd bring a certain guy in and he'd take over that day and I'd leave. But as time wore on, I realized that wouldn't have been good at all.
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I'm kind of a self-aware and confident person.
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As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.
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I'm never satisfied, man. I'm Virgo. We overanalyze and we're never satisfied. So I'm gonna keep going 'til the wheels fall off.
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People don't really call me a rapper. They call me Mr. 'Trap Queen'. The 'Trap Queen' Guy.
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My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.
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I simply want tomorrow to be better than today. I want Palestine to be independent and sovereign... Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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You'll realize the transformation is not for you alone. You'll learn that you're here to use this gift to shine light on the dark world around you. You become a miracle worker in the world. As you begin to understand how love is crucial to the healing of the world, your miracle work will take on a whole new meaning.
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I hope they never have to go through the kind of soul searching that I am going through.
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In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
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But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person.
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During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.
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Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and fall down laughing at themselves. I know which kind of guy I'd rather be. So do my friends.
