Freeman Dyson Quotes
It is a curious accident of history that the Christian religion became heavily involved with theology. No other religion finds it necessary to formulate elaborately precise statements about the abstract qualities and relationships of gods and humans. ... The idea that God may be approached and understood through intellectual analysis is uniquely Christian.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.
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I have an insatiable palate. I'll try anything once, with an open mind. However, there is a special place in my heart for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. Don't get me wrong, I've sampled specialty Mac & Cheese all over the world, but nothing competes with the stuff I grew up on.
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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Junooniyat for love but not necessarily from the romantic perspective. For me, that is for family, that is for my work. For me, both these things are very important, so there is junoon for people I love, which is my family, and my work, which I worship.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.
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For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
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A lot of the songs are based on my previous relationship. It didn't work out. I lost him, and it ruined me. I had to learn to get back on my feet. I used that heartbreak to create something really beautiful.
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It's constantly fascinating for me that something that feels absolutely right one year, 12 months later feels like the wrong thing to do.
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I'm sure there's somebody out there who doesn't like Betty White because she's short and has white hair.
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Some days I'm just flipping through the iPod trying to get pumped, some days I don't want to listen to anything and just focus. From game to game from day to day, whatever people do to motivate themselves, they do. I do all kinds of things.
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Ethics is inescapable.
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You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.
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It is a curious accident of history that the Christian religion became heavily involved with theology. No other religion finds it necessary to formulate elaborately precise statements about the abstract qualities and relationships of gods and humans. ... The idea that God may be approached and understood through intellectual analysis is uniquely Christian.
