Brian Greene Quotes

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

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• It's important not to think about Bitcoin as a replacement for cash or gold or something that works alongside that; it's to think of it as programmable money. And we just cannot even imagine what that will be used for.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Important
  • Money
  • Gold

• One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Work
  • Amazing
  • Star

• Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Want
  • You
  • Spotlight

• I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Because
  • Keep
  • Annoying

• When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • More
  • White

• To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • You
  • Amazing
  • Trouble

• I am positive that I would see the end of child labour around the world in my lifetime, as the poorest of the poor have realised that education is a tool that can empower them.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • World
  • Education
  • Positive

• I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Australia

• Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Why
  • Bad
  • Feel

• I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • Evil
  • Wise
  • Speak

• It's not accidental that products get worse over time; it's because companies stop paying attention to them. They stop caring as much about maintaining the same quality they did when they were just trying to fight for survival and no one would pay attention unless they had the best technology.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Stop

• I want to challenge the best, and I'm ready.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Want
  • Best
  • Challenge

• Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Religious
  • Religion
  • Doubt

• The solution for mankind is of a spiritual nature. It is not a political or religious solution. It's the ability to love each other. That's the only solution I see.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Political

• It's well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they're in middle school.

  

  Sally Ride
  • School
  • Down
  • Dumb

• I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix Band. My family has been involved in music for years, so it's kind of in my blood. I just wish I could sing!

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Music
  • Family
  • Wish

• I'm not in charge of judgments in Iran. The judicial system in Iran is an independent body of its own, and it follows the laws, and it must operate according to the law.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Law
  • Body
  • Independent

• We need first of all the reform of our justice system. We need reform of the education system, because of quality of education because of innovation and technology. And we need administrative reform. Too much bureaucracy.

  

  Iveta Radicova
  • Education
  • Reform
  • Bureaucracy

• Each new situation requires a new architecture.

  

  Jean Nouvel
  • Architecture

• We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

  

  Jean Toomer
  • Life

• I grew up in a blue-collar neighborhood and was raised by a man who did not emote, ever... I always cry at movies, and when I was a kid, I would try to hide it. It wasn't something a kid in Oaklyn, N.J., did. So I have these weird hang-ups about emotions.

  

  Matthew Quick
  • Up
  • Weird
  • Blue

• Traveling around, it can get very stressful sometimes, and I found yoga, thank God, like a couple of years ago. I went to my first yoga class, and I got hooked on it, and I go almost every day when I'm in New York. I find that it really balances me. And also, morning meditation.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • God
  • Morning
  • Couple

• Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

  

  Brian Greene