Freeman Dyson Quotes
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.
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The future of technology is not really location-based apps; it is about making location completely unimportant.
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One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.
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In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.
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I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.
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I never really grasped how big it was when I initially got 'Alexander'; I thought, 'Ooh, this is exciting,' but after I got home, I looked back and thought, 'That was an incredible experience.' I got to work with some massive names in Hollywood, and I learnt so much, and then it really kind of struck me how life-changing it was.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with me.'
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
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I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.
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I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.
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Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.
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I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.
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Up to now I have had fourteen, but they weren’t spread over my life equally, and for years and years at a time I had none. This, when first I began considering my dogs, astonished me; I mean, that for years and years I had none. What was I about, I wondered, to allow myself to be dogless? How was it that there were such long periods during which I wasn’t making some good dog happy?
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In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.
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I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.
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The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.
