David Brin Quotes
You don’t have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.
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I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.
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But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the sooner people will start to correct that situation.
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I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
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Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.
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I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.
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Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.
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I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.
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A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.
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I just want to do great work: work that inspires people... To know that you are given this gift in life and that you can gift other people with it, that's the most rewarding thing for me.
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I bounce my knees, but I do not have restless leg syndrome. I did an interview, I don't even know who it was with, and they said I told them I have restless leg syndrome and it distracts me from my work. I do not have any syndrome.
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We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.
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I never count calories. Counting calories is stressful and intimidating, so I avoid it! I know that if I'm eating something that's a treat, I don't need to count it because I mostly eat healthy and am conscious of what I'm putting in my body.
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The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in 'Lawless.' John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality.
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I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.
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Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.
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When I think about filmmakers and actresses that I have admired my whole life, I've admired their entire body of work.
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Racing thoughts was the biggest hurdle to consistent meditation for me. I could sit down, but then I was left with this interior world of thoughts.
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The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend - and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him. The uses of prayer are thus only subjective.
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I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.
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I feel like I have been able to rewrite my story to some extent. But I feel like there is a lot of work to be done.
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He that prefers the beautiful to the useful in life will, undoubtedly, like children who prefer sweetmeats to bread, destroy his digestion and acquire a very fretful outlook on the world.
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You don’t have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!
