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

• After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Success

• 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

• Ask yourself always: am I harmoniously put together, am I appropriately clad for the deed at hand, and am I free of non-essentials?

  

  Edna Woolman Chase
  • Free
  • Hand
  • Ask

• If this government wants to be fair dinkum, then it must stop kowtowing to financial markets, international organisations, world bankers, investment companies and big business people. The Howard government must become visionary and be prepared to act, even at the risk of making mistakes.

  

  Pauline Hanson
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• Giving yourself over to the fine line of a human-like droid means that sometimes you make choices that don't make you feel good, as an actor, and you have to learn to embrace that. No actor will tell you that that's a good place to be.

  

  Michael Ealy
  • Sometimes
  • Choices
  • Feels

• More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.

  

  Paul D. Boyer
  • Father
  • Understanding
  • Discipline

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

  

  Brian Greene