Brian Greene Quotes
We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time thinking about what I consider the deepest questions.
Quotes to Explore
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
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The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
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Hindi films offer a wider reach. As an industry, it has the capability to merge varied states, languages, and nationalities.
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I like new challenges and new experiences.
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I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument. I learned what relatives and substitutes could be played against a root of a chord, like E minor related to G, and so forth. I've also gathered all this knowledge because for ten years all I've done is play jazz, every day.
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I remember early on, in the first couple of years especially, I would run into some people that would try to put Kickstarter under the 'social good' label. And I actually had this very visceral reaction - I just didn't like that at all.
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For 'Conan,' I had to eat boiled chicken breast and work out all the time and basically eat like a bird every two hours and stay ripped.
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We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time thinking about what I consider the deepest questions.
