David Brin Quotes
We can’t save the world without food. Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.

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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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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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I love ballet, and it's a little boring for me to go to the gym because I'm used to the dancing discipline - it's really hard but much more fun.
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He walked into a room and everything stopped. Elvis was just so physically beautiful that even if he didn't have any talent... just his face, just his presence. And he was funny, charming, and complicated, but he didn't wear it on his sleeve. You didn't see that he was complicated. You saw great needs.
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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
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It's different, it's weird to say, 'She's a white rapper or she can't do this because she's this color - this color does this thing. These are the boxes we have, this is what it is, don't try to change it.' And it's crazy to me because I'm just not from that world, so I can't really rock with it all the way.
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The positive and negative poles of a battery create an electrical flow. The masculine and feminine poles between people create a flow of sexual energy in motion.
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We can’t save the world without food. Only people with full stomachs become environmentalists.