David Gross Quotes
I had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.
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I was blessed with a gift. It's a gift and a curse. It never ends.
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I am most attached to my mother, who always travels with me when I am on an outdoor location or abroad. She is my friend, who I share everything with.
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That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.
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A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.
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If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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People generally let me be me. People are aware that I'm not someone particularly begging for attention. They hold back a bit with me.
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I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.
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With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.
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Hamish is worried about ending up like my parents, who each spend time in their two homes in Bundanoon and Sydney. But that's how their marriage has lasted.
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We Muslims believe that the white race, which is guilty of having oppressed and exploited and enslaved our people here in America, should and will be the victims of God's divine wrath.
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There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your lines with a lot of energy and a cute smile.
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I shop, therefore I am.
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When an actor decides to play a character, he must exude some sort of charisma and look relatable, even if he is playing the role of a really unattractive person.
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'It must be nice to think there is a true reality,' says Miss Callendar. 'I've always found reality a matter of great debate.'
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Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us.
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I was a kid, and I was very excited to experience this whole new world. And everything was fun, everything from, oh, wow, we get bananas - I'd only seen them in picture books, you know - to, like, the diversity of the neighborhood and to explore Judaism for the first time. It was really hushed in the Soviet Union.
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Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.
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My first YA novel, not many people have read. It's a fickle business. There's a degree of timing and luck involved.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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I had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked.
