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Robert Sheckley Quotes

The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.

Robert Sheckley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: July 16, 1928 - December 9, 2005

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Time Doing Stuff Popular Terribly

I first met Dr. King in 1954 when I was a student at Alabama State University and a member of a local church down there. He was in town to organize a rally against public transportation. Rosa Parks had been arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man, which was illegal back then.

Man King Church Transportation Down

We have to remember we're in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to sustain activity in our national economies, but to help the global economy as well, and that's why it's so critical that measures in those packages avoid anything that smacks of protectionism.

Purpose Help Remember Why Economy

Nowadays I'd describe myself as earnest, terribly earnest. I'm the person who wants everybody in the room to feel important and happy.

America Ferrera

Myself Happy Feel Person Important

The media has zero integrity, zero intelligence, and no hard work. You're the opposition party. Not the Democratic Party. You're the opposition party. The media's the opposition party.

Work Hard Work Integrity Intelligence

I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way.

Focus Engineering Way Programming

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

Three Cannot Understood Minutes

I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.

Skill Said Storytelling Always

The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

Jean de la Bruyere

Beautiful Feel Beautiful Things Us

Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.

Brennan Manning

Father Trust Treasure Affection Rare

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

Love People Lazy Kisses Throw Who

Everything I write doesn't appear to be biography until later. I often say that I've never written about anything I've experienced. Of course, that's not true. But it doesn't appear familiar to me at all. And maybe that's because I have to be in a kind of coma in order to write. If it appeared familiar, I wouldn't.

Suzan-Lori Parks

Me Say Kind True Never Write

Every day I grapple between 'I'm going to get married' and 'I'm going to spend the rest of my life alone with a poodle.'

Life Alone Day Rest My Life Going

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