Brian Greene Quotes
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While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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I was a huge fan of video games; I wanted to write something, and I saw the tools at my fingertips to upload a video to my audience, and that's why I'm here today. I think that freedom and the lack of gatekeepers, combined with people's passion, is what really the true spirit of Internet geekdom is about.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China.
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Playing the greatest warrior in the seven kingdoms, that's absolutely no pressure.
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If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.
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Reading something for the first time and getting this feeling like the material provokes you on some level, and doing the movie is really just sort of defining and figuring out why exactly you felt certain things when you read it.
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
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I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
