Brian Greene Quotes

Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.

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• I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and found wonderfully original ways to screw up my life.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Men
  • Society
  • Freedom

• I think there's nothing more amazing than helping people every day.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • Day
  • Amazing

• I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Green

• Nothing wrong with making money.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Money
  • Nothing
  • Making Money

• Fans give me yellow things, and I think now what's really fun is, when anyone sees yellow now, they'll think of me. Now it's kind of like this self-fulfilling prophecy: Yellow things come to me.

  

  Cam
  • Fun
  • Me
  • Fans

• Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Why
  • Know
  • Drink

• Stalin made mistakes. He made mistakes towards us, for example, in 1927. He made mistakes towards the Yugoslavs too. One cannot advance without mistakes... It is necessary to make mistakes. The party cannot be educated without learning from mistakes. This has great significance.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Great
  • Party
  • Learning

• Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Words
  • Faith
  • Ignorance

• Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Evil

• Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic actors like Jackie Gleason, Paul Lynde and Phil Silvers.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there.

  

  Marton Csokas
  • Remember
  • Star

• The tribal community lived in the totality of circular time; the farmers of God's universe understood before and after; workers of the clockwork universe lived by the tick; and we creatures of the digital era must relate to the pulse.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Time
  • God
  • Community

• The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects.

  

  Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • Work
  • Women
  • Home

• Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.

  

  Kent Nerburn
  • Children
  • Why
  • Remember

• There are corporations in this nation, some of the biggest corporations in this nation, who do not pay taxes.

  

  Marcia Fudge

• Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.

  

  Alan Cohen
  • Joy

• My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.

  

  Mark Warner
  • Good
  • Work
  • Trying

• Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • Thinking
  • Moral

• Nadal and Roger Federer have great respect for each other. I think Novak Djokovic gets under those two guys' skin a little bit, and maybe they don't want to admit it, and I think that's, in a way, healthy.

  

  John McEnroe
  • Great
  • Respect

• I am trying to do my own thing, but there will always be comparisons, even if I don't agree with them.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Agree
  • Comparisons

• With a chip on his shoulder larger than his margin of victory, Barack Obama is approaching his second term by replicating the mistake of his first. Then his overreaching involved health care - expanding the entitlement state at the expense of economic growth. Now he seeks another surge of statism, enlarging the portion of gross domestic product grasped by government and dispensed by politics. The occasion is the misnamed "fiscal cliff," the proper name for which is: the Democratic Party's agenda.

  

  George Will
  • Mistake
  • Growth
  • Victory

• When I started thinking about it, I was like, 'OK, if throughout time I get labeled as a conscious artist, I'll be very much celebrated, in a way, and honored.'

  

  Common
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.

  

  Brian Greene