Kim Stanley Robinson Quotes
Plague was plague, and could not be treated lightly. And this plague was obviously worse than most, having killed everyone in the region.
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
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The Southern Ground warehouse is rocking and rolling in Atlanta, with a T-shirt shop and a leather shop; everything we're selling at our shows we're making or publishing ourselves.
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I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
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My parents got to see all my hard work pay off.
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I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.
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It's amazing living alone. I'm very lucky. It's like a refuge.
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Everyone else has some interest in economic growth and development, which often happens at the expense of the environment and community. We need the other side to join this to check and balance.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.
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Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the original film.
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I will wear tights even if it's 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.
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A lot of people don't understand how hard the girls on 'Total Divas' work. They're on the road, the same as the rest of us, and then when they get home, they've got to be filming this whole time.
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Irvin Kershner, no matter what anyone says, has done some great work. 'Eyes of Laura Mars' is an incredible movie.
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He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.
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Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.
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The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking in Iraq. Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
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Global warming is my personal experience.
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Small projects need much more help than great.
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Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.
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When the classical worldview was applied to social science, the dominant notions turned out to be struggle for survival, the profit of the individual, with at best an assumed automatic coincidence of individual and societal good (through Adam Smith's "invisible hand"). When the systemic vision inspires the theories of social science, the values of competition are mitigated by those of cooperation, and the emphasis on individualistic work ethos is tempered with a tolerance of diversity and of experimentation with institutions and practices that foster man-man and man- nature adaptation and harmony.
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The more business one has, the more you are able to accomplish, for you learn to economize your time.
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I'm a huge dog nut - giant, giant.
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Plague was plague, and could not be treated lightly. And this plague was obviously worse than most, having killed everyone in the region.
