Brian Greene Quotes
There may have been many big bangs, one of which created our universe. The other bangs created other universes.
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The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
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There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.
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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
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When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!
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I can never wink at the audience.
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What's the point of being efficient if you're only leading an efficiently blank life?
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Philosophers (and probably most intellectuals) are more interested in pursuing what they see as the logical implications of their theories than they are in paying attention to the shlumpy diversity of defensible values that people actually have, and then trying to figure out how these might be negotiated in the life of an agent or community.
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I was a big Pretty Purdie fan. I have heavy rhythm and blues influences, and that is what I bring to the table with Aerosmith.
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Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe.
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'You want a blessing, my son? Then God give strength to your bow and add bite to your arrows! May your arm never tire and your eye never dim. God and the saints bless you while you kill!'
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There may have been many big bangs, one of which created our universe. The other bangs created other universes.
