David Brin Quotes
One of life’s joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
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You just can't control your art in the future.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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People want to come to Pakistan but are not given visas. We wish for visas to be given to those people who want to come to Pakistan.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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I don't think enough journalists read enough - literature, history. You've got to keep reading all through your career.
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When you're feeling overwhelmed in business, one smart idea can beat the biggest Super Bowl ad.
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The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton.
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Sure enough, my life has been filled with some pretty interesting things every single day.
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A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold, rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen, instead.
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One of life’s joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it.
