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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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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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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I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.
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Lieutenant Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that 'they had looked at and smelled death all around them all day but never even dreamed of applying the term to themselves. They hadn't come here to fear. They hadn't come to die. They had come to win.
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The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.
