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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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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Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.
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All of us, we are not one thing: we're always between two worlds, and the idea of not being sure is very appealing to me.
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The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it and we adopt it, like all the rest of the world, to characterize the architecture of the second half of the Middle Ages, where the ogive is the principle which succeeds the architecture of the first period, of which the semi-circle is the father.
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I didn't design schools for poor kids. I'm designing schools to be world-class.
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It's like, if you're on a ship, and you're sailing towards your destination, but the ship sinks: that doesn't mean that you have to sink. Just because the ship sinks doesn't mean you have to sink. You just figure it out until a raft comes along, and God will send you a raft. Or He'll send you another boat to get you to your destination.
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My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood.
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What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?
