Brian Greene Quotes
Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.
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For most people, it is enough for the world to know that they aspire. The world does not ask what their aspirations are, trusting that those aspirations are for the best and greatest things. But with regard to the Negroes in America, there is a feeling that their aspirations in some way are not consistent with the great ideals.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.
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I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.
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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.
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If you think about work, it's just this endlessly fascinating subject. We spend at least half of our waking hours working. So it becomes this incredible window into a whole variety of things: who we are human beings, how the economy works, how people relate to each other, how stuff is made, how the world spins on its axis.
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The 8 P.M. hour in the cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might coexist in that lineup is just impossible for me.
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I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.
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I'm not registered to any party. I don't really play in the political world. I'm really more interested in getting things done.
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If you are too nice, you will just get eaten alive. The football world is not always a nice place.
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I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I'd love to do something production wise for her.
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I want people to know that it's OK to have feelings; it's OK to be vulnerable. That no matter where they live around the world, teenagers all go through the same things.
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I don't think fashion week will go back to what it used to be because people are realising that the industry is completely changing. It's not just in Bryant Park any more, people are figuring out who their audience is, where they want to show, they aren't really playing by the rules. It's not so much about these editors, these buyers.
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All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.
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Much more definitive and much more lasting than all the gold that one can accumulate is the gratitude of a people.
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Modeling wasn't the thing that was going to define me in any way; it was just a way to make a lot of money.
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Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions and understand the external world.
