Philip Warren Anderson Quotes
... the state of a really big system does not at all have to have the symmetry of the laws which govern it; in fact, it usually has less symmetry.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
Rabih Alameddine
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The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization, plot and dialogue and pacing and word choice and point of view. Then there's also the art of it which is sort of the unknown, the inspiration, the stuff that is noncerebral.
Garth Stein
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
Samantha Power
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Our poker table is eight guys, and then I'm the ninth; I'm usually the only girl at the table.
Laura Prepon
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I don't like to direct myself.
Vic Morrow
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Everything I do now is a first.
Hailee Steinfeld
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
Victoria Secunda
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What got me really excited about Tylko is the fact that it bridges the gap between tradition and technology. It expands the designer's ability to create a language, to create ideas, to create a set of proportions, a set of details, and to apply those across a really wide range of applications.
Yves Behar
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Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.
Harmony Korine
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A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.
Ibrahim Rugova
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No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
Oscar Wilde
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Like I said, everybody has got something they have to deal with health-wise, and everybody's human. I should look after myself better, but so should everybody, right?
Pamela Anderson
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There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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I fly from the seat of my pants, basically.
Carlene Carter
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Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
Samuel Butler
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MF Global used to be known as Man Financial, and it had a reasonably good reputation. It did a humdrum business placing commodities trades for fund managers as well as farmers, grain dealers and others whose livelihoods depend on the vagaries of commodity prices.
Gary Weiss
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I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton.
Albert Einstein
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There's so much revenue that comes in from a cap-and-trade system that you can really go to a person in a congressional district and get enough votes there by saying, ‘What do you need? What do you want?’
Barbara Boxer
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I'm always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.
Christopher Meloni
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I used to think, 'I'm going to write.' I knew that from quite early on, but I also thought, 'Maybe I'll be an explorer or a spy,' and it all came from books.
Lisa Tuttle
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In many respects we have bought companies that are fundamentally strong, but have issues that we believe our management and our expertise can help resolve.
J. M. Roberts
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... the state of a really big system does not at all have to have the symmetry of the laws which govern it; in fact, it usually has less symmetry.
Philip Warren Anderson