Robin Sloan Quotes

Prediction just means you saw where the world might be going: ho-hum. Influence, though - ah. Influence, direct and acknowledged, means you actually steered the world, even if only a tiny bit.

Robin Sloan

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Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

May Sarton

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My musical taste is somewhat dated - I mean, freeze frame, go back 60 years, and you're in my comfort zone.

Robert Rinder

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Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.

John Podhoretz

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Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness.

Stella Young

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Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

Tom Robbins

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I decided to finish at Oxford because I looked up at the top of the buildings - the gargoyles and spires - and decided to stay.

Rosamund Pike

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I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New Yorker, it was one city. When I was a grown man, it was another city. I worked with many dance organizations and many wonderful people.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

LoveRelationshipDanceManNew York

Television is fantastic because you get to follow a group of characters over time, and their stories can enrich and surprise you. And you get to work with a group of people over time as well, which can be very satisfying with the right group.

Liz Tuccillo

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As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

Jean de la Bruyere

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Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.

Josephine Baker

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I've devoted my life to football.

Jordan Rodgers

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Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.

Dick Gregory

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