Brian Greene Quotes
For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement.
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Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
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I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
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Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.
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When I work on a movie, I never aim for records, collections or the number one position. I always concentrate on my work and look for ways to improve my acting abilities. I also advise my co-stars not to concentrate on these pretty issues and just focus on acting.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.
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Pretty much anybody who's ever worked can relate to our show.
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs. People would come by on the street - you live in Time Square, you know how they do it - they would bunch up. And they would always compliment me on gospel tunes, but they would tip me when I played blues.
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Cinema is a little over 100 years old, and a lot of what we do is built around film emulsion. Those things were calibrated for white skin. We've always placed powder on skin to dull the light. But my memory of growing up in Miami is this moist, beautiful black skin.
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Stop spending your time; start investing your time.
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Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal for the sake of specific results.
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Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.
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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
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A lot of people thought I'd died, because of your coverage, they know I'm still around.
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For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is.
