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Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

Robert A. Heinlein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 7, 1907 - May 8, 1988

Topics

Society Troublemakers Downhill Goes

I'm part Maori. My mum's Maori, and she raised me. And my grandma, she's Maori.

Jemaine Clement

Me She Part Raised Grandma Mum

The general rule is that entrepreneurs need the fear of their brand's demise to make it magic. It is too safe to do it as a corporate subsidiary.

Fear Brand Magic Need Safe Rule

Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.

Andie MacDowell

Age Looking Back Looking Grow Back

A smile is the universal welcome.

Smile Welcome Universal

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

Funny Something Just Sort

People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers.

Stefan Sagmeister

People Meaning Write See Tell Who

I looked at my competitors and I thought that, If they could do it, I could do it. And if, they are popular and doing well, I could compete with them.

Thought Doing Compete Well Popular

When you're shooting a network television show it inevitably starts airing a few episodes in, and depending on the ratings and the response from the public, you find yourself tweaking your performance or the scripts go in a different direction.

Yourself Performance Direction You

I don't see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe. It doesn't need to be flattered with rain. It certainly needs rain, but it does with what it has, and creates amazing beauty.

Beauty Rain Amazing Desert Need See

It took so much of the tension out of me that my friends and family won't see me on this show.

Family Friends And Family Me Friends

No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion.

Christopher Dawson

Passion Culture Past Driving Doubt

Anybody who sits and says, 'I know New York' is from out of town.

New York New Know Out Who Town

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