David Brin Quotes
From you, my boy, I expect no less than the completely preposterous and utterly calamitous.
Quotes to Explore
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
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When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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I've seen women afraid to stretch for things. They avoid opportunities they don't feel qualified for yet. Instead, they should grab risky opportunities that will force them to grow on the job and learn to do it.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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I grew up pretty much with nothing.
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I got lost but look what I found.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.
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I think I have experience in rowing, and that has given me some ability to go about racing. I'm lucky genetically. I have a good VO2 max - I can hold a lot of air in my lungs - and that definitely helps.
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We cannot leave vulnerable young men open to the exploitation of extremists, both for our own security and their own wellbeing.
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I once said the wrong movie name to Aaron Eckhart, and boy did he tease me about it for years.
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What boy wouldn't love dressing up as a cowboy and getting paid for it! It was hard work, and I took it very seriously as an actor, but I was living in a dream.
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From you, my boy, I expect no less than the completely preposterous and utterly calamitous.
