David Brin Quotes
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, 'Where have you been?' The second comment they make is always, 'Oh, you've grown up.'
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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A lot of people are crazy, cruel and negative. They got a little too much time on their hands to discuss everybody else. I have a limited amount of energy to blow in a day. I'd rather read something that I like or watch a program I enjoy or ride my damn motorcycle or throw back a couple of shots of tequila with my friends.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.
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I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
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The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.
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I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.
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Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.
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In the real world, I see conservatives volunteering at adoption agencies, at churches, at bake sales and the local American Legion Post while the only charity a progressive sends is a smug sermon on fair share and what fairness is.
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With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.
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If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
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In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.
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A hallmark of sanity, Alex, is the courage to face even unpleasant points of view.
