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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Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.
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I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.
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No matter how healthy, intelligent or affluent we may be, if our minds are weak, then our happiness will also be frail and brittle. Our minds of faith, moreover, enable us to bring out the full potential in all things and situations, so it is crucial that we strive to forge our minds of faith.
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You have to feel good about yourself.
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What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?
