David Brin Quotes
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There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.
Famke Janssen -
Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
J. B. Pritzker -
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel Johnson -
To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
L. Lionel Kendrick -
Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
Maggie Smith -
It used to upset me - now it makes me sad - to see people use patriotism and our troops as a pawn in their political argument. Because I know personally, growing up in a military family, the sacrifice that is made on a daily basis.
Tamron Hall
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
Edan Lepucki -
I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
Rachel Platten -
The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.
Patrick deWitt -
Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.
Veruschka von Lehndorff -
Every international meeting or championship I do, I can cope a lot better because I can say I did the 100 m. hurdles, opened up the athletics at an Olympic Games in front of a home crowd, 80,000 people.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
The causes and severity of NSA infractions vary widely. One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error in which an analyst enters an incorrect query and retrieves data about U.S phone calls or emails.
Barton Gellman
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The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.
Gary Sheffield -
Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another.
Harbhajan Singh -
I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.
Daddy Yankee -
Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
Camille Paglia -
The object before us, to begin with, material production.
Karl Marx -
Blessed are the legend-makers with their rhyme of things not found within recorded time.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
Mao Zedong -
When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.
Drake -
Take thy self-denials gaily and cheerfully, and let the sunshine of thy gladness fall on dark things and bright alike, like the sunshine of the Almighty.
James Freeman Clarke -
A willing heart is the first step in finding God's will in our lives. We cannot expect God to force us or to plead with us about the calling in our lives.
David Jeremiah -
Gods' payment is the best payment.
Ezra Taft Benson -
Loneliness, her arch enemy, never seemed content.
David Brin