Kim Stanley Robinson Quotes

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 23, 1952

Topics

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I'm a very respectful fighter, I don't get out of character and start talking crazy, but if you don't want to fight a fighter, or you don't think it's a good style, or it's just not time, then say that.

Andre Ward

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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Maya Angelou

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I grew up with Bible stories, which are like fairy tales, because my father was a minister. We heard verses and prayers every day. I liked the gorier Bible stories. I did have a book of Chinese fairy tales. All the people except the elders looked like Italians. But we were not a family that had fiction books.

Amy Tan

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Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.

Solomon Short

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I've always said I would want to be a funeral director if I wasn't an actor.

Torrey DeVitto

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Conservatives have the advantage of knowing how to debate each other on issues, principles, and priorities, and that is where they should engage Trump.

Tom Tancredo

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I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.

Robin Trower

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Every now and then, a presidential candidate surprises us with a truly human and honest moment.

Ron Fournier

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Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.

Michael Morpurgo

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Consider this: Whenever someone is bothering you, and they just won't let up, and they won't listen to anything you have to say, what do you tell them to get them to shut up and go away? 'You're right.' It works every time. But you haven't agreed to their position. You have used 'you're right' to get them to quit bothering you.

Christopher Voss

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I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

Wilson Mizner

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Just because society says I'm old doesn't mean I am.

Sylvester Stallone

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