David Brin Quotes
He was, after all, a diplomat, and understood that the best and firmest deals are based on open self-interest.David Brin
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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.
Felicity Kendal -
My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
J. D. Vance -
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.
Malaika Arora Khan -
All I ever wanted to do is make music.
Caleb Johnson -
I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.
Candy Crowley -
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.
Karen Black
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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.
Malcolm Turnbull -
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.
Gail Kelly -
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.
Larry Bird -
Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something.
Ed Wood -
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.
Irvine Welsh -
The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.
B. F. Skinner
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A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.
Iain Duncan Smith -
Hema ji is a dedicated artist and a perfectionist who continues to rehearse on her lines till she gets them right.
Rakul Preet Singh -
I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.
Samantha Bee -
Only bad writers think they're good.
Harlan Coben -
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
Edmund Burke -
It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.
Quentin Blake
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I get into lab early and leave a bit early, too. So I like to have an hour or two before everybody comes in.
John Gurdon -
I don't abuse my body - I don't drink much alcohol, don't smoke and never have - but that's the same of many people. I don't think I've ever stopped ageing myself.
Morten Harket A-ha -
Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere fact of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise. We are alive against the stupendous odds of genetics, infinitely outnumbered by all the alternates who might, except for luck, be in our places.
Lewis Thomas -
Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off switch that is brought into the service of diagnosing the human condition, that machine is based on principles of physics discovered by a physicist in a machine designed by an engineer.
Neil deGrasse Tyson -
He was, after all, a diplomat, and understood that the best and firmest deals are based on open self-interest.
David Brin