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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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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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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A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
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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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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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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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The rumors of Frank Sinatra's violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography.
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L.A. doesn't have any big personality to me; it's not inspiring.
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As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.
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Part of the creative journey for me was not to come up the conventional route. I didn't go through drama school. I chose not to. I came from a very working-class area, a child of Nigerian immigrants.
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I'm a very research-, homework-oriented person.
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Prison for the crime of puberty-that was how secondary school had seemed, when he really thought back on it.
