David Brin Quotes
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I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand.
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I have never known stage-fright at any time.
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There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
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I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.
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I see a really good tag on a building, a man passed out in the middle of the street, a couple hugging, a cop arresting a panhandler. I'm interested in how all these things are happening in one block.
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If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.
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I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.
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Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.
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I would really like to go back to school. I would love it now.
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I'm not an expert when it comes to technology, but what changed things for me was autofocus. I used to have to throw away half my pictures because it was so difficult to get the focus right.
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Evolution is more grounded in my experience than angels.
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Loveliest of trees, the cherry nowIs hung with bloom along the bough.
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I believe in the British lion and I believe that the British character is lion-hearted, and I believe that it has not been lion-hearted in some of the post-War period, and I want it to get back to being lion hearted.
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I came out of high school, where my heroes were, like, Michael Jordan and a lot of local rugby players - and on the movie front, it was Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.
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Everything that came later... the roots are all there in the first album.
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I inherited my love of gold jewellery from my grandmother.
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LCD live was set up to be an argument about what's wrong with bands and why bands should be better. I always thought that we were so obviously not a great band, comically not a great band. I was not a great front man.
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My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people who hate you for what you are and you're likely to turn into one of those unkempt, sloppy dressers who sag beneath the weight of the two hundred political buttons they wear pinned to their coats and knapsacks.
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It could be worse. I can’t think how right now, but I’m sure it could be worse.
