David Brin Quotes
He was, after all, a diplomat, and understood that the best and firmest deals are based on open self-interest.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
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For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.
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I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.
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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
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One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something.
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Before I started writing, I'd never read much fiction. I was more interested in non-fiction. I'm taking the same approach to theatre: I can operate from a position of ignorance and make up my own rules instead of being bound by customs and practice.
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The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
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A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.
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Hema ji is a dedicated artist and a perfectionist who continues to rehearse on her lines till she gets them right.
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I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.
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Only bad writers think they're good.
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
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I loathe categorization. I cherish my independence, and I treasure chivalry. I live just fine with ambiguity, and I welcome a good quarrel about all things designed or grown - except for when men misnomer 'confident' with 'poised' and 'passionate' with 'feisty.' I work hard.
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I don't need the money I generate from photography to support myself.
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In size the electron bears the same relation to an atom that a baseball bears to the earth. Or, as Sir Oliver Lodge puts it, if a hydrogen atom were magnified to the size of a church, an electron would be a speck of dust in that church.
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He was, after all, a diplomat, and understood that the best and firmest deals are based on open self-interest.
