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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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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All dread those things they don't understand.
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There's always something that's smoldering somewhereI know it don't make a difference to you But oh! It sure made a difference to me You'll see me off in the distance, I hope At the other end At the other end of the telescope.
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We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.
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I have confidence in mining. I see exciting opportunities in it.
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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?'
