Brian Greene Quotes
I do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and quantum mechanics.
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When I initially moved to the city, I had to stay in hotels for almost two years. I was fed up of that life, and it was then that I decided that I wanted a home in the city, so I shifted base permanently.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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I do love to capture beauty in this world. And photos can last the test of time.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.
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Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.
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I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.
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When it gets down to it you just have to act.
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To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally.
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I had no particular desire to be a personality like my father, nor was I equipped to be one. I was determined to be my own man, although having the Fairbanks name did make it easier to get into an office to see someone.
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My experiences with dope were not good for me. I had to go another route. Because in my experience, dope didn't give me those insights.
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I do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and quantum mechanics.
