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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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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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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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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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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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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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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I think quotes are very dangerous things.
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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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When I come out of my dressing room, I go to my heart and say a little prayer and go out on stage. There I am, coming to lift you up and to motivate you. I want to bring joy. It's gospel, and gospel is the truth. It's what I do. I'm going to bring you the truth and lift up your spirit.
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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
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To design a home is to design happiness, to create for ourselves a little piece of joy.
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As with anything that involves emotional pain, comedy isn't too far behind. There's that element of no matter how painful something is - as long as it is not you that is going through it - it can be funny.
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Uruguayans are competitive, and we always want to win. Even though we try to hide it, it is impossible.
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Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.
