David Brin Quotes
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We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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I love working in New York.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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So long as nuclear weapons continue to exist, so will the temptation to threaten others with overwhelming military force.
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Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long time to throw up roadblocks against future historians.
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I think a girl looks good when she wakes up with nothing on her face.
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Even if you're an angry, intense person, you also have to have intense joy about life and intense feelings about the world.
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People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'
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Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.
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When I first walked into 54 Below, I had this kind of deja vu experience and tried to imagine what this was like back in the day when I would come here at night after doing 'A Chorus Line.'
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If you take your kid in for the sniffles, you pay $20, but the full cost is $200. And so we need to get back to the price system where you see the full cost of health care, and then people will make smarter decisions. That will reduce health care costs, and it's a huge part of our economy.
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There's no substitute for guts.
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I’d rather be dead than so suspicious I can’t trust anybody.
