Freeman Dyson Quotes
The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.
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I think that I could be an example to young people, and they know that dreams come true.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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Global issues require common responses: Only together we can create the conditions to defeat Daesh and al Qaeda, block channels for terrorist financing, tackle foreign terrorist fighters.
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If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.
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I feel that special secret current between the public and me. I can hold them with one little note in the air, and they will not breathe. That is a great, great moment.
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What is time, really? When you are diagnosed with a terminal disease like cancer or leukemia, your perception of time changes.
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Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.
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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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There is no great difference in reality between one country and another, because it is always people you meet everywhere. They may look different or be dressed differently, they may have a different education or position; but they are all the same. They are all people to be loved.
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The public knows that human beings are fallible. Only people blinded by ideology fall into the trap of believing in their own infallibility.
