Brian Schmidt Quotes
Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
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It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I am not a city-raised boy with city-raised sensibilities. I can play the vulnerable tough man, the guy with a gun in his hand, tears in his eyes, fire in his heart, innocence in him, and in his arms a woman he loves.
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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I entered the industry at very young age, and I was like any normal girl at the age of 17 or 18. At that age, most girls are a little plump.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.
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Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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People say that text messaging is a new language and that people are filling texts with abbreviations - but when you actually analyse it, you find they're not.
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America was entering the age not just of the automobile but of the retarded attention span.
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I'm genuinely peaceful and positive. I feel more grounded and connected with everything - friends, family. And I think I've changed the way I deal with stuff recently; I'm trying to think of everything in a more positive way because if something gets me down, it'll really gets me down. The thing I wish I could do more of is train. It's the one thing I do that doesn't require any emotion.
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Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.
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Australians have a free spirit and an ability to think outside the box, and that is why I like Australia so much.
