David Brin Quotes
From you, my boy, I expect no less than the completely preposterous and utterly calamitous.David Brin
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.
Mae Jemison -
Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
Ed Markey -
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.
Taylor Wilson -
I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
Gabriel Luna -
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.
Karen Finerman -
Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
Malorie Blackman
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
Ian McDiarmid -
Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
Eckhard Pfeiffer -
I grew up pretty much with nothing.
Fat Joe -
I got lost but look what I found.
Irving Berlin -
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.
Karen Carpenter The Carpenters -
Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
Lance Ito
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
Laura Z. Hobson -
After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.
Otto Schily -
What you see is what you get.
Van Morrison -
The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.
Taylor Momsen -
As I have said many times - I like Facebook. I think it is well built and run. It's cool. I think it is, in its next-step way, even visionary.
Kara Swisher -
Executives are waking up to realize that they can do a lot better, save money, make better decisions if they optimize and start thinking geographically and have a location strategy.
Jack Dangermond
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I've always been a night owl.
Blake Lively -
I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.
Gabrielle Union -
If I had a choice, I'd rather be admired less and have my husband tormented less. I'd prefer that people concentrate on a fair assessment of him and his Presidency.
Pat Nixon -
First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave.
Hillary Clinton -
Let's start working towards wellness, a healing in our community, a healing in relationships, so male and female can finally sit down and understand that that young boy or young girl saw behavior exhibited by their parents that was negative and abusive and they're going to pass it on.
Pam Grier -
From you, my boy, I expect no less than the completely preposterous and utterly calamitous.
David Brin