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David Brin

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TED DEKKER That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute the...
LARA FLYNN BOYLE We underestimate children and the people who work with them. I swear - so often, I tell people I am ...
KATHI APPELT It ain't the picture and it ain't the camera - it's the operator.
SIMON TRAVAGLIA No matter what it is you are cooking, buy the best ingredients you can afford. I don't care if i...
JOE BASTIANICH All actors are my brothers and my sisters. It ain't cool to compare or disparage them. It ain...
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J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know th...
EDWIN ARMSTRONG It's a classic album. If it ain't better than 'The Truth,' it's right there with...
BEANIE SIGEL The author of the Gospel of Judas wasn't against martyrdom, and he didn't ever insult the ma...
ELAINE PAGELS The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal ba...
CHARLES E. WILSON I don't believe in fairies floating around, and I don't believe in telepathy, but there are ...
ISOBELLE CARMODY It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure tha...
MARK TWAIN My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not ...
JAMES PATTERSON I've got a really great team around me. They're the ones that are in the restaurants on a da...
TODD ENGLISH There's gonna be a lot of great songs, but there ain't going to be another 'Trap Queen.&...
FETTY WAP There are men who wants only the woman; such are tagged, 'real men', and there are ones who want onl...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain...
DAVID EDWARDS I don't trust doctors. It's not to say there ain't some good ones, but on a general leve...
KEITH RICHARDS We are better than anyone, ain't we? Except for the Eagles, the Eagles are better than us.
SID VICIOUS The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones wh...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't go...
SUMMER ALTICE I don't care who the president is - it ain't just all about who's black or who's whi...
BIG BOI Anyone that I know who wants to work in these fields by the sweat of their brow, the bend of their b...
MARCIA FUDGE The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.
BARRY DILLER You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.
YOUNG JEEZY Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I writ...
P. N. ELROD My chicken ain't no joke. I ain't scared to go up against the Colonel, tastewise.
FLAVOR FLAV The best translations are always the ones in the language the author can't read.
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BILL WITHERS It ain't the heat, it's the humility.
YOGI BERRA If the cap ain't on my Crest, if it's squeezed from the middle and not the bottom, there'...
TINY TIM Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
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MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
AARON SORKIN It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
JOSH BILLINGS Language and written language are the only real way we have to see inside another person's thoug...
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LARRY BISHOP I'm tired of playing people who are complete washouts and bums. I don't mind waiting for the...
HARRY DEAN STANTON I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or any...
KATE SPADE I was the first in my family to go to college, and I waitressed all the way through, using my earnin...
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TERRY PRATCHETT White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain...
BILLY GIBBONS You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, an...
CASEY STENGEL People think it's suspect and self-indulgent to make art, and I don't think that's true....
DANA SPIOTTA The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed rig...
MARK TWAIN Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio,...
TALIB KWELI I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that c...
EDWIN ARMSTRONG I ain't want my kids to grow up and call me Thug. I don't want anybody to kind of look at me...
YOUNG THUG I don't consult anyone - not my mother, not my father, anyone - about my work. And I must add th...
AKKINENI NAGARJUNA Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
BARBARA SHER It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
TAMORA PIERCE I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that...
WAYNE ROGERS Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.
TOM WAITS Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a comm...
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CLIVE SINCLAIR I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk ...
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LORRAINE HANSBERRY It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a soluti...
HERMAN CAIN The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain'...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I d...
CAITLYN JENNER I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it rest...
VLADIMIR PUTIN You never know really what anyone thinks about you - that's why all my closest friends are ones ...
DOMINIC COOPER Don't ever, ever devalue your product. Ever. It's the worst thing anyone can do to hurt your...
KEVIN PLANK It ain't gun control we need; it's sin control.
SI ROBERTSON Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
GARY ALLAN I definitely don't like anyone messing with my friends or loved ones. I'm quick to step up t...
BLAIR REDFORD I saw Marilyn Manson. He had, like, the platinum grills, and that's when I got my first ones. An...
LIL UZI VERT That's the real work, being away from my loved ones, my family, my household. There's nothin...
ROMAN REIGNS I ain't good-lookin', but I'm somebody's angel child.
BESSIE SMITH A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that a...
TOM BRADY There's sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect...
CHRIS CORNELL Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
YOGI BERRA If you ain't Texan, I ain't got time for you.
KINKY FRIEDMAN I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and y...
DAVID ANDERS If you can't prove it in words, it ain't gospel. Soul music is just an expression of the min...
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MARK CURRY It's interesting how the view from abroad can shift and remake perceptions of homegrown celebrit...
TINA BROWN Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know...
PAT BARKER I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than...
BARBARA BUSH It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
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JUDE WATSON When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn...
BYRON KATIE I'm singing the music publisher's theme song - it ain't a commercial.
HOAGY CARMICHAEL Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no mo...
STOKELY CARMICHAEL I haven't run across anyone in Georgia who is not regretful and repentant of man's inhumanit...
SONNY PERDUE I think people should express themselves more and not just buy what's in. While it can be very b...
IRIS APFEL Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ...
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DAVID CASSIDY Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, ...
DAVID CASSIDY It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on televis...
DAVID CASSIDY Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.
DAVID CASSIDY I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for...
DAVID CASSIDY I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did.
DAVID CASSIDY Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence.
DAVID CASSIDY My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.
DAVID CASSIDY The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.
DAVID CASSIDY It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older.
DAVID CASSIDY I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took bi...
DAVID CASSIDY Nobody likes to be rejected, you know?
DAVID CASSIDY I nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in 'EFX.'
DAVID CASSIDY I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.
DAVID CASSIDY I don't listen to the news or read newspapers. I don't know what's going on in this worl...
DAVID CASSIDY You cannot make a teenage idol.
DAVID CASSIDY It's a difficult journey when you're going through a divorce, is it not, for anyone?
DAVID CASSIDY Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.
DAVID CASSIDY I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and perfo...
DAVID CASSIDY If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was i...
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