David Brin Quotes
We can’t save the world without food. Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.
Quotes to Explore
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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I like things simple.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
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I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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Why am I not feminist? Maybe because I come from a country where my mother ruled my life. I never felt in any way that I couldn't achieve what I want.
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Me & the dread yo, give em some head blow Long as he know he keep me flier than a Red Bull
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There's nothing wrong with fame, but to seek out the spotlight just to be on TV for the sake of being on TV, and to put your children on there, I think, is especially disgusting.
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We can’t save the world without food. Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.
