David Brin Quotes
I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring.David Brin
Quotes to Explore
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
Yo-Yo Ma -
I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.
Nancy Roman -
My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
Ulysses S. Grant -
I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
Zaha Hadid -
Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they'll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them.
Hanna Rosin -
Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
Wayne Dyer
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Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
Abbie Cornish -
I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.
R. Kelly -
If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.
Adam Dell -
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
Pat Conroy -
I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
Edgar Mitchell -
Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
Edi Rama
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
Rakul Preet Singh -
Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
Pat Paulsen -
The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
Karen Abbott -
You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
Paloma Faith -
There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
Idina Menzel -
We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
Dan Quayle
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I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
Ranbir Kapoor -
We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end.
Robert Falcon Scott -
I posed as an album-cover designer and photographer... That I today have some album covers and photographs to show for myself is a monument to the attention-to-detail of my disguise.
Eve Babitz -
To understand the universe in the state that it began in, the so-called Big Bang, we need laws of physics that work better than our current set of rules and procedures, which break down when we try to push them back to the beginning.
David Gross -
Emissions of greenhouse gases warm the planet, altering the carbon and water cycles. A warmer ocean stores more heat, providing more fuel for hurricanes. A warmer atmosphere holds more water, bringing dangerous deluges. Rising sea levels threaten coastal zones.
Johan Rockstrom -
I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring.
David Brin