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 do not watch horror films. At all. I am not a horror film girl; I don't have the stomach for it. I've seen a few in my lifetime, like 'The Shining' or 'Carrie,' but I can't sleep for, like, a week after I see something like that.
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Alcoholism is a complicated disease, and you never know when you'll be tempted to pick up another drink.
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One of my closest friends was killed. I had to wake up and follow the help of family and friends, in order to change my ways. Now, I'm against violence and drug abuse.
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I have always expressed respect for those people who make public declarations.
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I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.
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It could be worse. I can’t think how right now, but I’m sure it could be worse.
