David Brin Quotes
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
Dalai Lama
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Thinking differently is my strength.
Carine Roitfeld
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By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.
Jack Dempsey
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
Val Kilmer
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I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.
Camille Paglia
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Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.
Nathan Myhrvold
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I take great pride in recalling that I could open in a play on Broadway or in London's West End and fill a theatre on the strength of my name - Steed's name.
Patrick Macnee
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In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
Irwin Shaw
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Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
Lara Flynn Boyle
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Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.
Fanny Brice
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I love the Warner Brothers lot. There is so much history there. They've done such a smart thing. They have signs outside of each stage which tell you what movies and TV shows were shot inside. So cool... you can almost feel the ghosts of actors past.
Valerie Azlynn
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Always follow your own path.
Queen Latifah
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I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like having fun.
Vanessa Hudgens
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There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burner, but for a startup company, keeping costs low is a vital necessity.
Felix Dennis
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I know it's illegal trespassing, but I don't think it's wrong.
Ingrid Newkirk
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In the formulas of 'personnel experts', men and women are to be shaped into the 'well rounded, acceptable, effective personality.' Just like small proprietors, they cannot higgle over prices, which are fixed, or 'judge the market' and accordingly buy wisely.
C. Wright Mills
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When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself.
Eckhart Tolle
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For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man.
Martin Niemoller
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I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.
Brian Dennehy
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Within ten years, we shall have the means to kill 80 million Russians. I truly believe that one does not light-heartedly attack people who are able to kill 80 million Russians, even if one can kill 800 million French, that is if there were 800 million French.
Charles de Gaulle
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Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.
Paul Mellon
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A dragon’s inertia is not shifted by yanking its tail.
David Brin