David Brin Quotes
Ideologies are too seductive anyway. It does a man good to see things from a different point of view.
Quotes to Explore
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.
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I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.
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You just can't bifurcate bitcoin currency from the technology. Bitcoin will always need a monetary base.
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My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.
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Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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I sit around for ages waiting for inspiration. Then when I get an idea, I want to go with it and get something as quickly as possible. It's like catching a fly in a bottle. I'll play with drums for a bit, then the piano for a bit, play the guitar.
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I used to be a print reporter.
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It is important for me that a certain depth and variety of both exist next to each other. I am very careful not to sacrifice the one for the other.
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A good husband makes a good wife.
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One of the pupils of Artur Schnabel told me that he never heard his teacher practice a difficult passage slowly, but he was struck by the way Schnabel would play one chord of a slow movement over and over, measuring and remeasuring the different components of the harmony.
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Ideologies are too seductive anyway. It does a man good to see things from a different point of view.
