Brian Greene Quotes
The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.Brian Greene
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
Tatjana Patitz -
I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
Naomie Harris -
I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
Parker Posey -
Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
Naomi Klein -
And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
Samuel Daniel -
Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
Xavier Becerra
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
Wendy O. Williams -
I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
Iggy Azalea -
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
M. Esther Harding -
I love badminton. That's my sport!
Olga Kurylenko -
When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'
Jack McDevitt -
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Octavio Paz
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The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.
Yoko Ono -
The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
Barry McCaffrey -
Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.
Harold Perrineau -
In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness.
Yair Lapid -
Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.
Jack Horner -
The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions.
Ferdinand Marcos
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When we foster an economy without hope, we guarantee that a segment of our population will be destined to know homelessness on a permanent basis, and not for the one night I voluntarily spent at a shelter.
Jackie Speier -
Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.
Keira Knightley -
Hermann went out of his mind, and is now confined in room Number 17 of the Obukhov Hospital. He never answers any questions, but he constantly mutters with unusual rapidity: 'Three, seven, ace!' 'Three, seven, queen!'
Alexander Pushkin -
She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.
Charles Dickens -
One of the things I like about music is it's an abstract art, totally abstract, where you can convey an emotion, which I find amazing.
Bernard Sumner New Order -
The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.
Brian Greene