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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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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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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Brother, hello and good-bye. Frater, ave atque vale
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If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of answers. A beautiful body, grace of line, graciousness of spirit, joy in the work, ability to please, unswerving integrity, relentless ambition towards some abstract perfection. Certainly all these factors determine a dancer's character, and every element exists in some combination within the performing artist's presence.
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I grew up with a saying: 'It doesn't matter what you wear or where you go, but your hair always has to be brushed.' So in Italy, we come from that kind of culture - where how you present yourself is important.
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Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.
