Spider Robinson Quotes

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

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• If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Movie
  • You

• There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Choices
  • Nothing
  • Unlimited

• I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Time
  • Want
  • Fight

• Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Internet
  • News
  • Transition

• I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Think
  • Just
  • Consistent

• Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • People
  • Time
  • Black

• There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Happiness
  • Sorrow
  • Prove

• I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Trying
  • Me
  • Going

• When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Revolution
  • Dictatorship

• I once went into a meeting, and every woman put her a million-pound bag on the table. Then I'm there with my tote bag and anorak. And I'm like, well, I'm still the most important person in the room right now.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Important
  • Woman
  • Meeting

• Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Prison
  • Directors
  • Guard

• In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Time
  • New
  • New York

• Me in my music and onstage – that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.

  

  Banks
  • Music
  • Shining
  • Fears

• It all depended on the cut. Some of them were really on the ship. Some were really on the set. Like if they had the stars for a week, the stars coming off, that was usually on the set, except if we were on location for that particular show.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Stars
  • Week
  • Ship

• The tutor gave us our work, and if we had trouble, she'd help us on it, but we were really only working on the stuff that our school gave us - well, I was, because I go to a public school.

  

  Quinn Shephard
  • Work
  • School
  • She

• A little roller up along first; behind the bag! It gets through Buckner! Here comes Knight and the Mets win it!

  

  Vin Scully
  • Up

• Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Different
  • Character
  • Experience

• I'm not a girl anymore.

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • Girl

• It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.

  

  James Patterson
  • Job
  • Kids
  • Parents

• The soul is here for its own joy.

  

  Rumi
  • Soul
  • Joy
  • Own

• Although in 1937 we might still hope to prevent the divisions of Europe into Fascist and anti-Fascist camps, our real affinities and interests, strategic as well as political, lay with France, a fact which some of my colleagues were most reluctant to realise.

  

  Anthony Eden
  • Real
  • Hope
  • Political

• She wondered what had caused the bald pilgrims to vomit so uniformly, and whether they had vomited together in a single, well-orchestrated heave (to music perhaps, to the rhythm of a bus bhajan), or separately, one at a time.

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • Time
  • Music
  • She

• I really don't have to answer to nobody.

  

  Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
  • Answers

• Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • Pain
  • Joy
  • Empathy