Spider Robinson Quotes
Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.
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I would love to be a role model.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.
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I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
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A loach can't emulate a goldfish. Because of my looks, the public support rating for us won't rise.
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The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is possible to be informed, I shall make honesty, capacity, and fidelity indispensable prerequisites to the disposal of office, and the absence of either of these qualities shall be deemed sufficient cause for removal.
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I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
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If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.
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Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of shock of white hair and a slightly absent-minded way of speaking. But he's extremely sharp and very serious about power relationships.
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I was in high school in 1953 when the Committee of One Million circulated a petition urging that Red China - one third of the world's population - be excluded from the United Nations. And I remember I refused to sign it, at 14 or 15 years old.
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That's what happens in the world. You get offered superior contracts.
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All sporting ambition considered, there should always be a relationship to Germany.
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The chili-rubbed rib-eye at Porter House New York is one of the best steaks that I've eaten anywhere in the world.
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Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.
