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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• There's no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies.

  

  Peter Eisenman

• The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.

  

  Armstrong Williams
  • Country
  • Learning

• When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

  

  David Brainerd
  • Up
  • Time
  • Heart

• As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women who inspire me - their experience makes them better.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
  • Women
  • Experience

• Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • Life

• There are many guys out there who look like me - you know, brunettes with long hair. There are thousands. But I think the difference is that I am a real polo player, who does endorsements for Ralph Lauren on the side, and I've always looked at it that way.

  

  Nacho Figueras
  • Real
  • Player
  • Hair

• I write a number of screenplays, and I've never really come up with a part for a movie star.

  

  Andrew Dominik
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Star

• Neither Lynn Margulis nor I have ever proposed a teleological hypothesis. Nowhere in our writing do we express the idea that planetary self-regulation is purposeful, or involves planetary foresight or planning by the biota. ...Yet we met persistent, almost dogmatic, criticism that our hypothesis is teleological.

  

  James Lovelock
  • Writing
  • Criticism
  • Planning

• If we leave the European Union, there will be an immediate economic shock that will hit financial markets. People will not know what the future looks like.

  

  George Osborne
  • People
  • Future
  • Financial

• As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Moved
  • Shelter
  • Old Man

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

  

  Spider Robinson
  • Pain
  • Joy
  • Empathy