James Jeans Quotes
At this time, space was supposed to be filled with an ether, a substance which might well serve, among other functions, to transmit forces across space. So long as such an ether could be called on, the transmission of force to a distance was easy to understand; it was like ringing a distant bell by pulling a bell-rope.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
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What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that's a very small aspect of my life.
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There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
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When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.
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The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.
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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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But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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A great ratatouille is one in which the vegetables interact with each other but are still discernible from each other. The trick is to cook them just right: not over, not under.
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Harry, talking about the doctor who came to the ward and then went away. 'That guy has a thing about potato chips and hot dogs. If God didn't want us to eat salt and fat, why did He make them taste so good?'
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We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in the world. If we have a taste for some one precise style or manner, we may keep it to ourselves and let others have theirs. If we are more catholic in our notions, and want variety of excellence and beauty, it is spread abroad for us to profusion in the variety of books and in the several growth of men's minds, fettered by no capricious or arbitrary rules.
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One of my favorite Japanese proverbs is "Fall down 7 times, stand up 8".
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At this time, space was supposed to be filled with an ether, a substance which might well serve, among other functions, to transmit forces across space. So long as such an ether could be called on, the transmission of force to a distance was easy to understand; it was like ringing a distant bell by pulling a bell-rope.
