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Robin Sloan Quotes

'Parable of the Sower' is capital-I Important. Put it on the literary fiction shelf. Put it on the Holy Crap fiction shelf. Put it on every shelf. This is one of the all-time great American novels.

Robin Sloan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american

Topics

Great American Important Fiction

From the sense of being an ambassador for Jesus Christ, hopefully, through my story and through all the improbables and the miracles that happened in my life, people are inspired or at least a little bit warmer to the idea of exploring who Jesus is.

Jeremy Lin

Life People Story My Life Miracles

I very rarely use a credit card, but I do if I know I have big bills coming and I need to stagger payment.

Andrea McLean

Credit Know Credit Card Need Big

It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.

Jeff Goodell

America Late Too Late Big West May

I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality.

Robert De Niro

Myself Personality Early Actor Never

We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments.

Joshua Leonard

Moments Down More Everything Up

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Action Clearly Must Effective Ends

In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so.

Clayton M. Christensen

Life Success Happiness Pain Think

Distribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up on YouTube in the afternoon and be a star overnight. The talent on YouTube is incredible, and it can spread like wildfire. The downside is that it's very hard to convince the younger generation that they should pay for music.

Bonnie Raitt

Music Morning Talent Generation You

It was my privilege to serve with Paul Ryan in the House and on the Ways and Means Committee. Ryan's vast experience and bold, reform-minded ideas were always evident. His knowledge of the federal budget is widely recognized.

Bob Beauprez

Knowledge Experience Ideas House

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Political Moral Non-Violence Hold

I try to stay low-carb and high on lean protein. I'm lucky in that I love chicken and rice; it's one of my favorite meals. I steam some vegetables and top them with olive oil for some flavor.

Ashley Wagner

Love Vegetables Chicken Try Lucky

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

Alice Walker

Myself People Suffering World Feel