David Brin Quotes
Prison for the crime of puberty-that was how secondary school had seemed, when he really thought back on it.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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There was Pauline de Rothschild, who I thought was very fabulous, and Millicent Rogers, the Standard Oil heiress, very chic, very clever, very original. I admired both those women very much. And I had a great example with my mother, who was extremely chic.
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In Cuba, I would start the first two months hitting around .260 with three or four home runs. After the first half of the season, I would get hot, and that's when I would have my best results.
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Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!
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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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I love doing every role I do!
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My dream was always to win in the Olympic Games, but I never set that next goal, and I have realised now I need to set another goal.
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Broadway is full of crazy people.
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Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.
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Eventually I got the call for 'Iron Man,' and I read sides that had nothing to do with what I did in the movie, and I performed it once while no one was in the room - it was videotaped, and I'm sure Shane Black was watching it from his helicopter or something. And then I got a call the next day that I was going down to shoot it.
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Prison for the crime of puberty-that was how secondary school had seemed, when he really thought back on it.
