David Brin Quotes
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.
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Cutting one side of your head for a few months is not a big deal compared with what other people have to deal with in the world. Plus, hair grows back.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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I pack on mass quickly when I lift.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
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I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.
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I've always been a strong feminist and felt that the image of models was detrimental to women. That whole thing really bothered me. I would think about quitting about once a week.
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I am pure Filipino; both my parents are Filipino.
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It's a weird dynamic - I guess there is a fine line between hope and sadness. Sometimes you can be feeling both at the same time.
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A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.
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The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also guided me artistically.
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The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.
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She too was standing in the lamp’s raw light. Her cheeks looked hollow, her lips too red, too bold.
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True love would be passion that burned so hot you were almost afraid of the power the other person had over you, the way they could turn you inside out with a look, a touch, a kiss. It would be wanting to fall asleep every night and wake up every morning for the rest of your life in that one person’s arms. Just like you said, it would be holding hands and laughing and building a family together. And, most of all, it would mean being able to talk to each other about absolutely anything, knowing that no matter how hard it was to say the difficult things, you’d both still love each other…and that you’d find a way to work it out together. No matter what.
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If your city's being populated by highly educated twentysomething s with choices, you're probably going to succeed.
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
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And tell him it's quite true that the best of the philosophers are of no use to their fellows; but that he should blame, not the philosophers, but those who fail to make use of them.
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You can’t fight biology. Only push at the rules, here and there.
