Kim Stanley Robinson Quotes

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

Kim Stanley Robinson

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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.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Development

• 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.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • School
  • Know
  • Fashion

• 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.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Up
  • Men
  • Long

• Jackie Chan is a myth.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Myth
  • Jackie Chan
  • Jackie

• 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.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Him
  • Phone
  • Yesterday

• People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Up
  • Soul

• The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Friend
  • Temptation
  • Meeting

• 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.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Book
  • Moral

• 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.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • World
  • Different
  • Difficult

• 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.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • World
  • History

• Anyway, my money is still on use strict vars . . .

  

  Larry Wall
  • Money

• '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.'

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Life
  • Dream
  • City

• Secularists like you don’t have to spend sleepless nights over this. I will carry the secular baggage on my broad shoulders.

  

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

• Combine general relativity and quantum theory into a single theory that can claim to be the complete theory of nature. This is called the problem of quantum gravity.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • Nature
  • Single

• Most writer's blocks come from people second-guessing to the point where they get discouraged, and they just quit. For me, if I write something and it's not amazing, I don't care because even if I feel like it might not be amazing, it could still be a number-one hit.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • People
  • Amazing

• The thing is, people only care about their selfie. I am a fan of artists, and if I have 30 seconds with an artist, I am not going to take a photo just to prove on social media that I was with the artist. I am going to enjoy every single second of those 30 seconds, ask questions, talk, actually make something of the moment, thank them.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • People
  • Single

• I'm Jewish. That's all. So I am in exile all the time. Wherever we go, we are in exile. Even in Israel, we are in exile.

  

  Chantal Akerman
  • Time

• As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London. I dragged my kids to a performance of 'Twelfth Night' there, where they handed out pizza. Who knew that all it takes to get children interested in Shakespeare is a snack?

  

  Arabella Weir
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Night

• I live in Brooklyn, and there's so many interracial couples in Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, you don't talk about race like that.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Live

• The army of Grant and the army of Lee are together. They are one now in faith, in hope, in fraternity, in purpose, and in an invincible patriotism. And, therefore, the country is in no danger. In justice strong, in peace secure, and in devotion to the flag all one.

  

  William McKinley
  • Country
  • Together
  • Strong

• The first win came very quick, and I didn't know what it meant to win a major championship. I was a teenager, I was very young. I didn't know what I was doing. I just needed some time to get settled in on the tour.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Time
  • Know
  • Win

• One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

  

  Kim Stanley Robinson