Kim Stanley Robinson Quotes
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
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I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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Tennis is definitely a star for women in sports.
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I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
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Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
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I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
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There are certain things that I do - I don't eat chicken or pork. I stay away from red meat a lot; I eat fish most of the time. I think it makes me feel cleaner, not just body wise. I feel good.
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I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?
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That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them.
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I'm a science nerd! Not a cheerleader. - Claire Danvers
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The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.
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One of the most striking results of modern investigation has been the way in which several different and quite independent lines of evidence indicate that a very great event occurred about two thousand million years ago. The radio-active evidence for the age of meteorites; and the estimated time for the tidal evolution of the Moon's orbit (though this is much rougher), all agree in their testimony, and, what is far more important, the red-shift in the nebulae indicates that this date is fundamental, not merely in the history of our system, but in that of the material universe as a whole.
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Science is-or should be-the greenest force of all.
