Frank Tipler Quotes
If any reader has lost a loved one or is afraid of death, modern physics says: 'Be comforted, you and they shall live again.'
Quotes to Explore
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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No two wars are identical.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.
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I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.
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Golfers don't scream. Golfers just adjust the pleats in their pants and go from there. That's about as antagonistic as we get.
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Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.
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People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.
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I left Kurdistan in April 2003 with the peshmerga, following their excited advance as Saddam's forces crumbled. First Kirkuk, then Mosul - where looters broke into the city museum and seized its Parthian sculptures - then Tikrit. I reported from Baghdad in month-long stints until the end of 2004.
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Nothing is ever wrong. We learn from every step we take. Whatever you did today was the way it was meant to be. Be proud of you.
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If any reader has lost a loved one or is afraid of death, modern physics says: 'Be comforted, you and they shall live again.'
