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.
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From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it's shown me the entire movie.
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I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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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.'
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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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.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.
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My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.
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All beautiful things in this world are because of women.
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Acting gives me an adrenalin rush I don't get from anything else.
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If you do nothing long enough, something's bound to happen.
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Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
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I'm not like other writers. I'm not hung up on using my own songs. In fact, my sister Bunny always tells me I sing other people's songs better than my own. She says I loosen up and give the songs a different feel.
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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John Cage made you realise that there wasn't a thing called noise, it was just music you hadn't appreciated.
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Oh, I have felt lust. And I've indulged lust. But no other woman has turned me into another person.
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I was in so much emotional pain as a young girl that whatever distracted me from how I felt about myself was fine by me.
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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.
