Robin Sloan Quotes

Everyone's lives are sort of a succession, almost like handing the baton of your life off from one person to the next to the next to the next. And hopefully, that goes on for a long time, and the changes are healthy and interesting and not, like, spiraling into darkness.

Robin Sloan

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I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened.

Joanna Trollope

MoreAlwaysDramaticTensionBecause

I love to collect guitars made in the 1950s. I like preserving and playing them.

Joe Bonamassa

Love1950sPlayingLikeMadeThem

Ali even told me in the ring, 'You can't beat me - I'm your Lord.' I just told him, 'Lord, you're in the wrong place tonight.'

Joe Frazier

MeYouWrongPlaceRingBeat

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

Jessica Savitch

MarriageChildrenJobSayingEarly

When I was a kid, there were really only two possible futures in the foreground, which were Orwell's '1984' and Huxley's 'Brave New World'.

Max Richter

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I'm interested in people's stories, so I decided to tell part of mine.

Jeffrey Tambor

PeopleTellMineInterestedStories

I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.

Sinead O'Connor

LifeLiveFamousWishPersonI Wish

I don't think an alien will be a blob. If aliens are out there they should have evolved just like us. They should have eyes and be walking on two legs. In short if there is any life out there then it is likely to be very similar to us.

Simon Conway Morris

LifeEyesThinkShortWalkingAlien

I don't think I'm alone in this: I'm obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment.

Mitski

HappinessAloneHappyBe HappyThink

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.

Lloyd Alexander

ParentsWantedThemWereAuthor

I would love to work with Eminem, Dr. Dre. I wish I could have been in the studio with Bob Marley.

DJ Khaled

WorkLoveWishI WishBeenWould

Overwinding happens when hedge funds destroy companies by attempting to leverage derivatives against otherwise productive long-term assets.

Douglas Rushkoff

LeverageDestroyAgainstLong-Term

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