Spider Robinson Quotes
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The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China's back yard, contaminating its air, water, soil and seas.
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The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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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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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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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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Since the commencement of 1830, I had been living with Mr. Joseph Travis, who was to me a kind master and placed the greatest confidence in me; in fact, I had no cause to complain of his treatment of me.
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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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I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.
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I just do my job and go home. There's just one or two people I can say are friends that I can call.
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God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries to pop up and come just as close to making him swallow his laughter as possible.
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What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
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And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.
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Somewhere we went wrong We were once so strong Our love is like a song You can't forget it at all.
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There is a constitutional right for people to own guns, but there's also a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
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The same law that shapes the earth-star shapes the snow-star. As surely as the petals of a flower are fixed, each of these countless snow-stars comes whirling to earth...these glorious spangles, the sweeping of heaven's floor.
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I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.
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You're also finding out something as you read vitally important for making your way in the world. And it's this: The world doesn't have to be like this. Things can be different.
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It's an interesting thing to be in your forties and evaluate success and take ownership of some disasters and some pain and try to forgive a little bit - yourself and others.
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The hand is the visible part of the brain.
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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Shared joy is increased, shared pain is lessened.
