Freeman Dyson Quotes

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Freeman Dyson

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• I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Great
  • Music
  • Daughter

• After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Money
  • Success
  • Kind

• The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Character

• I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Work
  • Job
  • Amazing

• Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Society
  • Faith

• Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Long
  • Character
  • Comedy

• I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Life
  • Up
  • Myself

• A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Life
  • Man
  • Single

• The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Guy
  • Small
  • Technology

• Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • World
  • May

• Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Time
  • Control
  • Model

• Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • Fire
  • Christmas

• I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Me
  • Always
  • Spirit

• I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Time
  • Career
  • Day

• Say yes to everything.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Everything
  • Say
  • Yes

• Habit is a great deadener.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Great
  • Habit

• I think that women should be decorative.

  

  Raquel Welch
  • Thinking
  • Should

• To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• I find that I don't lie about the big things in life. The things that matter. And about me. While I'm talking about myself, I rarely lie: I know who I am, my level of talent, that I'm not the most versatile filmmaker, the person I am. I don't lie about myself because I don't lie to myself.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Lie

• We must always bear in mind that the primary purpose of our work is not to get people to join a church, to give up their bad habits, or to do anything other than to accept Jesus Christ as their Savior.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • Life
  • Live
  • Fear