David Brin Quotes
'After all,' he muttered, 'what can they do to shake the confidence of a fellow who’s got delusions of adequacy?'
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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The 100m taught me a lot and it's given me confidence.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
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Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
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We actors have it pretty easy and pretty hard. Easy 'cause we have a meal provided to us every 6 hours every day and craft services. The hard part is staying fit under those circumstances.
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I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
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I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.
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I like performing live more than anything. I get a little bit afraid in the studio.
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Let me tell you, writing comics is as hard as anything I've ever done - for me, at least. I'm now officially in awe of guys who can crank out multiple books a month and maintain a high level of quality. Comics are completely different than any other medium I've dabbled in.
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Anybody who has interacted with me will definitely find me to be a chirpy person.
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Make yourself necessary to somebody.
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When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
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It's so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions.
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People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
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I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever ‘written’ … it evolves in the minds of a thinking community.
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Frank Sinatra did 'Born Free', Tony Bennett did 'Walkabout,' but you have no control over who does what, really. So you just hold yourself responsible for the stuff you do, and then get filthy rich on all this stuff that other people have done.
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I wrote a song for Icona Pop which boosted my confidence quite a lot.
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'After all,' he muttered, 'what can they do to shake the confidence of a fellow who’s got delusions of adequacy?'
