Rudy Rucker Quotes

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.

Rudy Rucker

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WorkScienceWorldRulesOut

My greatest desire was to be in a sandbox with Kevin Kline or Kenneth Branagh - to be with the people I admired - and I have.

Robert Sean Leonard

PeopleDesireGreatestSandboxKevin

I think that laughter and death are closely related: comedy is the quintessential human reaction to the fear of death. It's probably linked with the fact that we are the only animals who know we must die.

Maurizio Cattelan

FearDeathLaughterThinkDieKnow

I have a 48-hour rule. No drinking two days before a start. But those other days? Yes, I'm gonna go out. If I was locked up in my house all week, I don't know what I'd be like on the baseball field.

Matt Harvey

BaseballStartWeekHouseGoKnow

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

Alphonse de Lamartine

PeopleFeelUnderstandAffectMove

People have this idea that opera singers are overweight and sit at home eating bonbons. But I consider myself an athlete.

Sondra Radvanovsky

HomeMyselfPeopleEatingAthlete

The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down.

Rita Rudner

TogetherGymDownSaidUp And Down

My idol when I was a kid was Elizabeth Taylor.

Rita Moreno

KidIdolElizabeth TaylorElizabeth

There's a lot of nuances to stand-up that you definitely see when you watch someone like Chris Rock in that his body position is also part of why the joke works.

Michelle Wolf

SomeoneYouBodyRockWhySee

Delaware State has established itself as an institution of excellence in its own right and attracts a diversity of students from various races, socio-economic status and locations.

Michael N. Castle

ExcellenceDiversityRightOwnState

There's that saying: 'God gave you talent, and if you don't use it He'll take it away from you.' And I always said, 'I don't want God to come down and take my talents away.' So, by using all these talents and being successful in all of them, I've always got something to fall back on.

Missy Elliott

GodTalentSayingYouFallDown

I'm not convinced that stealing an iPhone is a felony or stealing a bike is a felony.

DeRay Mckesson

BikeiPhoneStealingConvinced

Churches, synagogues, and mosques should be treated the same.

Chris Gibson

SameChurchesShouldTreated

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