David Brin Quotes
There was that word quaint again. It seemed to refer patronizingly to anything simple or backward, from the viewpoint of a city-bred tourist.
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It's interesting to know how much you are worth.
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As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.
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I'm not a control freak.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...' to 'The Hulk.'
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.
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The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They're overleveraged, they're bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely.
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With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.
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I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
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Take this Hercules - this hero! Hero, indeed! What was he but a large muscular creature of low intelligence and criminal tendencies!
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So often, I think, in these relationship comedies, they don't necessarily reflect the people that I know. They don't reflect myself.
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The greatest power is often simple patience.
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The principle of TM is simple, being is bliss in its nature, infinite happiness, mind is always moving in the direction of greater happiness. It is the experience of everyone: wherever the mind goes, it goes in the direction of greater happiness.
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There was that word quaint again. It seemed to refer patronizingly to anything simple or backward, from the viewpoint of a city-bred tourist.
