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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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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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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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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First impressions are always unreliable.
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I was always obsessed with other performers doing their thing, and Britney 'Live in Las Vegas' from 2001 is my absolute favorite tour DVD of all time.
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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With the newspapers cheering, Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt chose a top-notch regiment of more than 1,250 men. They were first called Teddy's Texas Tarantulas and went through three or four other monikers until Roosevelt's Rough Riders stuck.
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We all know business financial performance improves when more women are in senior levels of management and leadership.
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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.
