David Carey Quotes
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I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.
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I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we would go up to the Moors. It tapped into our romantic visions of ourselves.
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I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
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There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.
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When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.
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I have to clean my room and unload the dishwasher, wash the pans, and feed the dogs.
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The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.
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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
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Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.
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No one has a right to comment on anyone's life or the choices I do or don't make.
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Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.
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Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys.
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Most people probably don't even know what toothpaste they buy; they just recognize the box on the shelf.
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We struggle throughout our lives to learn to accept the shell that transports us through this world, and many of us take great effort to change it. I believe everyone has at least once looked in the mirror and thought, 'That is not me. I am someone else. The world cannot see me as I really am.'
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The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.
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'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give No hollow aid; alone - man with his God must strive.
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What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade in Indian slaves as one of the most unjust, evil, and cruel among them.
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Big media companies can't be like big battleships; they have to feel nimble.
