Brian Greene Quotes
When we benefit from CT scanners, M.R.I. devices, pacemakers and arterial stents, we can immediately appreciate how science affects the quality of our lives.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
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Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis.
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We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.
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The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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As weird as it is it to see yourself on screen, it made everything we've been through seem very real. And, well, London is only weeks away now.
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You go to drama school, and the people you revere and admire are those who work on the London stage, and you hope that's a world that you'll be able to break into and do enough occasional television and small film work to eventually get to the point where you're paying the bills.
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The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
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It's interesting for me because in my work, a lot of times, I like to scrutinize the clothes and think what's going to make them look dated, and I do the same with vintage. In vintage, you want something unique and different, but at the same time, something that doesn't make you look like you dress like a grandpa.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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I play to see what I can accomplish. I don't play for fun. I play to see how good I can be.
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I was one of the worst attorneys. I didn't enjoy law.
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Wars, conflict, it's all business. 'One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero'. Numbers sanctify.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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When we benefit from CT scanners, M.R.I. devices, pacemakers and arterial stents, we can immediately appreciate how science affects the quality of our lives.
