Kim Stanley Robinson Quotes
One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money.
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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I want to have a long career.
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Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood.
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Jackie Chan is a myth.
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When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
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People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
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I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.
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The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
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If it is terrorism, if it is war on terror, then the Afghan people will join you on terror.
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Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.'
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Vegetarian is like raising a kid Mennonite. It's difficult but not that different. Raising your kid vegan is like being Amish. A totally different world.
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The history of capitalism has been so totally re-written that many people in the rich world do not perceive the historical double standards involved in recommending free trade and free market to developing countries.
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Naturally I am not pointing a finger at me,But I must admit that I find Mr. Ickes or any otherspeaker far more convincing when I agree withhim than when I disagree.
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Anyway, my money is still on use strict vars . . .
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'The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for - for what? Someday we'll know.'
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Secularists like you don’t have to spend sleepless nights over this. I will carry the secular baggage on my broad shoulders.
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By far the single greatest danger facing humankind - in fact, all living beings on our planet - is the threat of nuclear destruction.
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'When God calls a man or woman, what they will eat, what they will use and everything they need for their journey will be provided abundantly by God.'
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By using TV as a bra... the most intimate belonging of a human being, we will demonstrate the human use of technology, and also stimulate viewers... to look for the new, imaginative and humanistic ways of using our technology.
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I'm a huge cinemaphile. My interest in filmmaking came out of experimenting with different genres, and I wanted to go back to working in a way that was more personal, which, for me, was artwork. Commercials and films are more collaborative.
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I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be.
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One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.
