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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I support strongly the expansion of nuclear power because that is one of the key ways of getting electricity generated and reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
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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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I was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything.
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A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about.
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My middle name really is perseverance. I've always believed that I had talent, even when I felt like a very inferior sort of person, which I spent a lot of time living my life feeling that I wasn't worthy. But even then I knew that I had something special, and maybe that's what it takes. Maybe people need to have that kind of particular core driving them. But I felt I had talent.
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If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.
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What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?
