Freeman Dyson Quotes
The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.
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I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.
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I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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I was kind of freaked out by the art world in the 1980s. Just the money thing. All the competition over artists.
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This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.
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Believe in yourself and know that you're strong enough to get through just about anything.
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I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next.
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The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
