Robert J. Sawyer Quotes

George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure because the future it predicted failed to come to pass. Rather, it was a resounding success because it helped us prevent that future.

Robert J. Sawyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: April 29, 1960

Topics

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Basically, I think society functions thanks to how certain key industries work - government, finance, healthcare, education, energy. Pretty much all of these have a huge impact on everything else.

Joe Lonsdale

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When someone comes along and expresses him or herself as freely as they think, people flock to it. They enjoy it.

Joe Rogan

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When I get onstage, I automatically feel beautiful.

Jill Scott

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I'm a big fan of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, they're my two favorites.

Andrew Shue

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Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I'm in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.

Matt Groening

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I want people talking about me as a great fighter - from being a prospect with the big pressure as soon as I turned professional, then going on to win the world title.

Amir Khan

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We don't have any measures in most cases of the health of our social relationships, of what we're giving to the community.

Tom Rath

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I watched 'Downton Abbey' twice, and I'm thinking of watching it for a third time. It is so good!

Rory O'Malley

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I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.

Jarvis Cocker

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Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in.

Diane von Furstenberg

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I've thought about what I could accomplish in football, but when you read about Mike Webster and Dave Duerson and Ray Easterling, you read all these stories, and to be the type of player I want to be in football, I think I'd have to take on some risks that, as a person, I don't want to take on.

Chris Borland

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It's fun coming in as the second or third lead. If the movie or TV show bombs, you aren't to blame.

Phil Hartman

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