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.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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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.
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I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.
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Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
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Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
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In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.
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Me in my music and onstage – that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.
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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.
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To see things in the seed, that is genius.
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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.
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A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
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We must broaden the definition of who our neighbors are, and extend the boundaries of our interest and empathy.
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I started taking cocaine and drink ... I turned into a babbling fucking wreck.
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In today's retail environment, competition comes from every conceivable retail format. To succeed, we have to operate more efficiently and compete more effectively against players at all levels of the retail demographic. There is no question that this is a bold and exciting move, and one I believe will have a positive impact on competitive retailing for American consumers in the longer term.
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Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.
