Brian Greene Quotes
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk when I was in sixth or seventh grade and being so inspired.
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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When you have too much scheme, sometimes it's hard to work on all the things you have to, and you can make effort the top priority of your game.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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When you think of technological revolution, you probably think of geeks in cool coastal spaces like the Google campus, or perhaps of math wizards on Wall Street. But one source of rural prosperity is the adoption of radical new technologies - and a consequent surge in productivity.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.
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Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.
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I love the process of discovering a new world - that's why I'm passionate about acting. It's just discovering life, feelings, ideas and thought.
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The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.
