David Brin Quotes
'You think I'm kidding?' the pilot asked.'No, we think you're crazy.'
David Brin
Quotes to Explore
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My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.
Madhur Bhandarkar
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People stayed with me and worked extra hard for me because I could see the potential in them – I'm not so sure they could see the potential in me.
Barbara Corcoran
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
Zygmunt Bauman
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The first person who showed me that I could be a maker of music was one of my best friends. It's like, you can't see yourself doing something until you see somebody else doing it. Other people were encouraging me singing, but this was the first time that I could see myself writing songs and playing guitar.
Cam
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Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.
Zadie Smith
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There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups.
Otto Schily
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You can get pigeonholed in Hollywood and people think of you in a certain way.
Luke Wilson
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I started dating JD Samson from Le Tigre, and suddenly I was listening to more up-tempo music and old dance music, like ESG and Gang of Four, and I thought, 'Wow. This is fun.'
Sia
LSD
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
Salman Rushdie
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If you’re going to do something that crazy, save it for when it’ll make a difference. But absent near-omniscience there’s no way to know when that is. You can only make your best approximate calculation. You can only make your throw and try to puzzle out the results afterward.
Ann Leckie
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'You think I'm kidding?' the pilot asked.'No, we think you're crazy.'
David Brin