Robin Sloan Quotes

When you do something a little bit extreme or weird, it helps make it more interesting and more amenable to being written about.

Robin Sloan

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I wrote a show - just as a joke, actually - and called it 'Bipolar, Bath, & Beyond,' just to bring some humor to it. I wasn't saying to myself that I'll 'come out' with it - I didn't think there was anything to 'come out' with - I was just writing another one-woman show about my life.

Jenifer Lewis

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When I get on stage, my first goal is not to show my expertise, but on the contrary, to give a bit of happiness, of joy, of cheerfulness. I am firmly convinced that in order to sing well, you must love your neighbor and be passionate about life.

Andrea Bocelli

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Many of the crises we see in the 21st century, I would argue, have their roots in the dawn of the Neolithic.

Spencer Wells

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All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.

Roman Jakobson

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I've always had an eye for what looks good on a man. But I've not always found it easy to find clothes that look good on me.

Michael Sheen

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It's a heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody. My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can and provide entertainment for everyone who wanted to watch basketball. Obviously, people may not agree with that; again, I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do.

Michael Jordan

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There are things that I will always shoot, but now that the modeling and acting worlds are becoming very close, you can do a little bit of one and more of the other.

Liya Kebede

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I would love to go to college because you never know what is going to happen with your career, and you always want something to fall back on.

Diana DeGarmo

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I really love doing what I do, being an actor. It's the greatest. You can do it until you die.

Dennis Quaid

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I started playing football when I was ten years old, and the main reason was because I wanted to make my parents proud. I didn't even like the sport at the time, but it didn't matter to me.

Devon Cajuste

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Growing up, my parents were Roman Catholic - strict Catholics - from New Orleans. I understood the idea in the principle of spirituality. I noticed it in the stories that I read. The Trinity was something that was brought up consistently: the power of three. Things happened in threes, and I thought that was brilliant.

Dawn Richard

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