Freeman Dyson Quotes
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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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Companies often visit my office, or invite me to theirs, to brief me on new products, Web sites, or software before they are released - usually a few weeks or days ahead of time. I don't review most of these products.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
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I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
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I strictly want to beat every opponent I face, whether it's for a title or for a small show. The only thing for me is winning my fights and being the best athlete I can be.
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The only big things I've purchased are my dad's heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.
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Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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I was working my first adult job, a quasi journalistic job, writing content for a website. In the offices, we had banks of TVs, papers, a constant media stream, which was unusual for 2001.
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There is torture of mind as well as body; the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.
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Practice humility at first with man and only then before God. He who despises man, has also no respect for God.
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The sigh that rends thy constant heartShall break thy Edwin's too.
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I've always wanted a black girlfriend. Not as a joke, just so when we sixty-nine I can call it Yin-Yanging.
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I loved my Communications class. The toughest one I had was Oceanography only because I didn't have too much interest in the oceans.
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I like my own company.
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Most of what I want simply slips away like water flowing through a net, and always what remains are only vague, elusive fragments of images... that sink into countless strata in my mind.
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Is there something in my genetic makeup that makes me more at risk for heart disease? I believe there is. My father was the sign.
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I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.
