David Deutsch Quotes
Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
-
It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
-
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
-
The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
-
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
-
I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
-
A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
-
I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
-
To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
-
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
-
I can't go on. I'll go on.
-
The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
-
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
-
Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.
-
If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.
-
I love to watch old movies when I get time off.
-
I have to prove everything. Especially when you're coming from an off year after the injuries, and you come back, and you have to prove a lot of things to the fans, to the team, to your teammates, to the sport. You have to prove a lot of things out there on the field.
-
I'm going to be honest, playing in D-League games is tough.
-
In a time where racism was at a premium high,
-
I wouldn't discount the possibility that the Israelis would act if they came to the conclusion that basically the world was prepared to live with Iran with nuclear weapons. They certainly have the capability by themselves to set back the Iranian nuclear program.
-
You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution.
-
Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.
