David Brin Quotes
Naroin stopped, shook her head. 'Take it from an experienced hand, child. It’s no good blamin’ yourself for what you couldn’t prevent. Not so long as you tried.'Maia’s lips pressed together. That was exactly what she had been telling herself. From the look in Naroin’s eyes, it didn’t get much more believable as you got older.
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
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I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I do that is to bypass the thinking part of me and get to the more unconscious part, which is where all the good ideas seem to be.
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It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance that antique temples, Roman basilicas, and even the cathedrals of the Middle Ages are not the works of single personalities but creations of entire epochs.
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I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good.
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The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
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I like many different kinds of music. My favourite band is Radiohead, and I'm also a giant Jeff Buckley fan.
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Naroin stopped, shook her head. 'Take it from an experienced hand, child. It’s no good blamin’ yourself for what you couldn’t prevent. Not so long as you tried.'Maia’s lips pressed together. That was exactly what she had been telling herself. From the look in Naroin’s eyes, it didn’t get much more believable as you got older.
