Freeman Dyson Quotes
The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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There is no doubt in the sanctity of Mecca, but a donkey won't become a Hajj pilgrim by just going through the motions.
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How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.
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Getting old is better than being young. You can do what you want to do.
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I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls.
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It's not what people do that matters, it's why they do it.
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Starting my business has been very hard work. I have received no help from any officials at all.
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The outsider, Haller says, is a self-divided man; being self-divided, his chief desire is to be unified. He is selfish as a man with a lifelong raging toothache.
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The climate-studies people who work with models always tend to overestimate their models. They come to believe models are real and forget they are only models.
