Brian Greene Quotes
The funny thing is, I sometimes get the impression that some people outside of the field think that there's some element of security that we have in working on a theory that hasn't made any predictions that can be proven false. In a sense, we're working on something unfalsifiable.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
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I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
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I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.
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Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.
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We saw hundreds of programs to redevelop the central city, the neighborhoods, in the past.
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Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.
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When people have good energy I feel it. And generally I feel that people do like me. And that makes me very happy.
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Hollywood will put you in a box, so to speak. Some people will have seen you in 'La Bamba' or another dramatic film and think, 'Okay, that's what Lou does.' But they don't really have an idea of the range or diversity that I can bring to a project.
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We can no more blame it on good Middle Eastern citizens than we can blame Hitler on people of German descent.
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The funny thing is, I sometimes get the impression that some people outside of the field think that there's some element of security that we have in working on a theory that hasn't made any predictions that can be proven false. In a sense, we're working on something unfalsifiable.
