David Brin Quotes
Nation states are archaic leftovers from when each man feared the tribe over the hill, an attitude we can’t afford anymore.
David Brin
Quotes to Explore
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
Laura Linney
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
Laura Benanti
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
Aasif Mandvi
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It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.
Pat Tiberi
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
Walt Alston
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
Abby Wambach
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The Tigers, Lions, Red Wings, and Pistons are there today as sure as they were when what was good for General Motors was good for the country. Would you rather have a basketball team, or would you rather be Detroit?
Frank Deford
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Dale Carnegie
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Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.
Walter Pater
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While the (America's) Cup is yachting's Holy Grail, it has also come to represent the ultimate test in 'the game of life.' Just as in life, success demands commitment and commitment demands a positive winning attitude. I told all the guys who came into our Cup campaign that if they were going to make the grade they needed three essential ingredients: attitude, attitude and attitude. I wanted commitment to the commitment. When they finally made the crew, some of them joked that they ought to be committed for their commitment to the commitment.
Dennis Conner
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Nation states are archaic leftovers from when each man feared the tribe over the hill, an attitude we can’t afford anymore.
David Brin
