David Brin Quotes
In the end, both extremes had more in common with each other than either did with the middle.David Brin
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
Garry Disher -
There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
Kailash Satyarthi -
I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
Patrick deWitt -
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
D. H. Lawrence -
It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action.
Ian Hacking -
This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.
Beau Willimon
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I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.
Karl Rove -
My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'
Action Bronson -
I was quite ready to accept certain restrictions on the United States. After all, there was a great dollar shortage. It was quite clear that the more prosperous Europe became, the more business there would be in the United States.
W. Averell Harriman -
Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
I would like to see more new productions of new material by new composers/lyricists/book writers. I would like to see people take more chances. I think because everything costs so much they're not taking the chances they used to.
Harold Prince -
I don't take a scene or word for granted.
Walton Goggins
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I don't have a car in Manhattan because you have to choose between a car and an apartment. It's that expensive.
Adam Ferrara -
In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr. Joseph D'Angelo, a massive force of erudition, martial artistry, culture, and love.
Taylor Mali -
Humans are very good at dreaming, although you’d never know it from your television.
Carl Sagan -
Our performance, relatively, is likely to be better in a bear market than in a bull market … in a year when the general market had a substantial advance, I would be well satisfied to match the advance of the averages.
Warren Buffett -
Honey, I just forgot to duck.
Jack Dempsey -
If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface; of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.. .I see everything that way, the surface of things, a kind of mental Braille. I just pass my hands over the surface of things. 1973
Andy Warhol
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The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
Harold Taylor -
You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong said when asked what jazz is, 'If you got to ask, you ain't never gonna get to know.'
Ned Block -
Every morning when I'm thrashing around on the floor doing my solid hour of heavy exercises I'm not really doing that for anyone but myself. It makes me feel good.
Helen Gurley Brown -
I'm always being told by directors that I add chemistry to scenes, so I mean how difficult could it be?
Zach Braff -
Far from mortal cares retreating, Sordid hopes and vain desires, Here, our willing footsteps meeting, Every heart to heaven aspires.
Jane Taylor -
In the end, both extremes had more in common with each other than either did with the middle.
David Brin