David Brin Quotes

Those who use 'Correlation is not the same as causation' as a magic incantation to dismiss all fact-using professions are fools holding a lit match in one hand and an open gas can in the other, screaming, 'One has nothing to do with the other!'

David Brin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 6, 1950

Topics

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As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do and not supposed to do.

Andreja Pejic

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You don't have to wait for a tragedy to occur to rush to help those in need.

Robert Kraft

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When our diplomats go abroad, they are surprised that they can't do the things that they can do here.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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If people didn't know me and only knew my public persona, what I'd want them to know is everything that I do, I do for the Glory of Lord. Because of my Christian faith, that's who I am. I wasn't always that way, but I'm very proud that I am.

Tony Dungy

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I think the most effective way to run a kitchen is to teach, not to just yell.

Tom Colicchio

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I've come to learn that you can be very, very talented, but if you're not at the right place at the right time... It's a lot of luck.

Tom Guiry

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There's very little about being in a functional-M.R.I. scanner that is natural: you are flat on your back, absolutely still, with your head immobilized by pillows and straps. The scanner makes a dreadful din, which headphones barely muffle.

Robin Marantz Henig

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I think it's in my mind, and it's driven me my entire life, and it is to offer customers tasteful clothes at good value, meaning it lets the world - or more of the world - afford to dress well.

Mickey Drexler

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We need to do whatever it takes to get our children together and pay attention to them, because that's our future. What's in the hearts and minds of our children is what's in our future.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

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I think about all of my students who were math-phobic, who didn't believe they could learn math, who didn't understand, who didn't think they were smart enough, and by the end, they understood that they already had the gifts, and my job was to help them access them, and I believe that.

DeRay Mckesson

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It's going to be hard for someone like me to run for president.

Bob Dole

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I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.

Alicia Silverstone

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