David Brin Quotes
Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.
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We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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Pablo wanted to be loved and accepted. He wanted to destroy the elite he despised so much, but he also wanted to be the president of Colombia.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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I wake up some mornings hating me too.
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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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I know all my different formulas to get certain sounds. I've been doing this so long that I don't experiment anymore. Or let me rephrase: I've been doing this so long that I don't have to experiment as much. You always want to evolve and change, but if I go in and I know it's a certain type of song, I know exactly where I'm going to place the mics.
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For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.
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My husband has a gift for reaching out to people in need. I always look over and see him connecting to someone who needs to talk or needs some support.
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Gaming has been a great way to get to know people. That's part of what I love about games, that they are social.
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People are odd creations, this is my theme.
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Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.
