David Brin Quotes
He wasn’t afraid of dying, only of having not done all he could, and not properly spitting in the eye of death when it came for him. That final gesture was important.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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My wife Cecily Adams was dying of cancer, my daughter Madeline was struggling to overcome an autism diagnosis, and my father was dying, all at the same time. Writing the journal was a cathartic experience, and an extremely positive one.
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I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.
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That's what leads to a reinvention of yourself - being fully present and in the moment.
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Sustained exhaustion is not a rite of passage. It's a mark of stupidity.
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Family life is fragmenting in this modern age, but it's up to all of us to keep it together.
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He wasn’t afraid of dying, only of having not done all he could, and not properly spitting in the eye of death when it came for him. That final gesture was important.
