David Deutsch Quotes
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
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I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
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Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
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I don't want to compete. I want to skate for the joy. I get so nervous in competition. I get always sick. I had pressures enough in my life from skating.
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If you look at that 2008 Democratic primary, there was no more formidable, unstoppable candidate - other than an incumbent President - in modern times than Hillary Clinton.
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The best experience that we have on Earth is the fact that we have scientific stations, weathering over stations down in the Antarctic for almost the entire 20th century to learn how to exist in exceedingly hazardous conditions; and the Moon is far more hazardous than Antarctica. At least they have water there.
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For the very young, there's nothing better than Mother Goose and anything by Dr. Seuss for the rhythms and language.
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I accomplished what I set out to do. I wanted the whole cookie, and I got it. Now I want to spend more time with my children - make sure they don't go through what I did.
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I'm a huge gamer.
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O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn’t then.
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He hated the way they thought. He hated the way they didn't think. It was hard to imagine which of them he hated more.
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Primum est igitur ut apud nos valeant ea quae valere apud iudicem volumus, adficiamurque antequam adficere conemur.
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But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.
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A plague on both your houses.
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While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
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Science fiction is an extension of science.
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Is the human race a universal constructor?