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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Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.
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Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.
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Just kidding, I've been very athletic all my life.
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There is no need to feel defeated at 40, 50 or 60. I'm having the greatest time in the second half of my life.
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The daguerreotype itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.
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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.
