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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Nature is beautiful, and you are in her bosom. That voice of comfort which speaks in the breezes of morning, may visit your mind, that the delightful influences which the green leaves, the blue sky, the moonbeams and clouds of the evening diffuse over the universe, may in their powers of soul-healing, visit your day visions, is my desire and hope.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I can't say that it's a dream come true because when I was growing up, I never dreamed of playing in the Olympics.
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I do not hate them or anything. I have a lot of respect for Real Madrid, but I always want to beat them.
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Picasso was hugely innovative, and, wow, did he have facility, amazing ability, but I don't think he painted a masterpiece.
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I do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and quantum mechanics.
