Kim Stanley Robinson Quotes
The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.
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You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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Creativity is the key for any child with dyslexia - or for anyone, for that matter. Then you can think outside of the box. Teach them anything is attainable. Let them run with what you see is whatever they need to run with.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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Yashpal, writing in the nineteen-fifties, sought to indict this culture of men, Hindus and Muslims alike, who value their freedom and power over the rights and lives of women.
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Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
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How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.
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When I played a club in Salt Lake City, I complained to the crowd about the low turnout. It's always good to berate the people who paid to see you because you're upset about the people who didn't show up. It's called misplaced anger, and without it, I wouldn't have an act.
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I am proud to state that every national Jewish organization we support enforces non-discrimination practices around sexual orientation and that more than 70 percent have written policies in place covering gender identity and expression.
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It's a weird thing to be nineteen and be in the public eye. It was a crazy thing, it was a big deal to me, and it changed me in a lot of ways. And now that it's five, six years later, I wanted to look back at that, the start of it all, the excitement and the naïveté about it, and it just fascinated me to reflect on all that.
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The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.
