Brian Greene Quotes
Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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My life is not perfect.
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Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'
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The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.
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I keep a lot of things inside. I don't like showing too much emotion. Early in the minor leagues, they wanted me to show more emotion, but it wasn't me.
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Ninety percent of my roles, I've had to fight for. It's only a really small percentage of people who get handed roles. But that can be quite scary. The good thing about auditioning is that you get to test yourself and see if you can play this character - you're also auditioning yourself. I enjoy seeing what the chemistry is between the people you might be working with.
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The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.
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If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.
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People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.
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The biggest waste of time of my life was playing 'Call of Duty.' But I got really good at 'Call of Duty' - a little bit too good at that time.
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Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.
