James Jeans Quotes
And the substance out of which this bubble is blown, the soap-film, is empty space welded onto empty time.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.
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The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.
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I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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I'm not one of those people who thinks they simply deserve success. I have the drive to work.
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I didn't particularly want to go to Westminster - not that there were many seats available or chances for women to get elected. In 1987, Labour sent down 50 MPs, and only one of them was a woman.
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I have to say, speaking from experience, just because an actor starts out in a role in the workshop, they won't necessarily play it when it goes to Broadway.
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If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
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And the substance out of which this bubble is blown, the soap-film, is empty space welded onto empty time.
