David Brin Quotes
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If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun.
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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
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Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
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My first car was a 1999 red Mazda Protege.
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I don't believe in the no-carb diet... I have a theory. I think if you give up carbs, you get cranky. You must include them in your daily diet.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.
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I'm sick of the tabloids' saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don't like it.
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The camera and I have always had good chemistry.
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We're humans. Why always turn human attitude into political behaviours? I hate that.
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Everything I experience influences everything I do.
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I have to hear more live instrumentation, more band and more funk, and I don't hear enough of it, so I created it myself.
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The really exciting focus here is the event and others like it that encourage, support and celebrate the enterprising innovation of pioneers working to give humanity wings.
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The human race has only two unlimited capacities: one for suffering and one for lying. I want to fight religion as the root of all human lying and the only excuse for human suffering.
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Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.
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All the people in Korea are cheering me like I'm a gold medalist or something, so I have a responsibility to my country.
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Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.
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Everything new endangers something old. A new machine replaces human hands; a new source of power threatens old businesses; a new trade route wipes out the supremacy of old ports and brings prosperity to new ones. This is the price that must be paid for progress and it is worth it.
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I've been a fascinated observer of grand public funerals since I was a kid, starting with the life-altering black-and-white images of President John F. Kennedy's funeral.
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If pressed to supplement Tweedledee's ostensive definition of logic with a discursive definition of the same subject, I would say that logic is the systematic study of the logical truths. Pressed further, I would say that a sentence is logically true if all sentences with its grammatical structure are true. Pressed further still, I would say to read this book.
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What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?
