Brian Schmidt Quotes

There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.

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• I'm very self-critical.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Very
  • Self-Critical

• Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • History
  • Generation
  • Irish

• The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovnik. It's such a stunning country with lots of good watersports there as well. Just a beautiful, beautiful place.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Good
  • Country
  • Game

• It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Pretty
  • Reality
  • Place

• When I was younger, I went through a phase when I didn't like my hair. Because the school I went to was primarily Caucasian, there wasn't anyone who had my hair texture. I remember one day I straightened my hair, and that was the first day that people gave me compliments on it.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • School
  • Remember

• Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in anything other than movement.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Up
  • World
  • Art

• As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've immediately created a boundary line - who's in that group, who's outside that group.

  

  Randall Kennedy
  • Black
  • Community
  • Group

• My favorite thing about this business is you're just jammed in a room on a set with like-minded people - writers, directors, and art designers and hairdressers. People who didn't work a 9-to-5 but chose this life. You're going to like at least two or three people in that you love these people so much.

  

  Kaitlin Doubleday
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Want
  • Know
  • Religion

• I've always felt that children are the flowers of our future.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Children
  • Future
  • Flowers

• I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Great
  • Why
  • Always

• It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Important
  • Business
  • Failure

• All writers have a love-hate relationship with writing. Performing is fun, too, but I wouldn't say it's my favorite. But the most fulfilling is producing.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Hate

• Like Nemesis of Greek tragedy, the central problem of America after the Civil War, as before, was the black man: those four million souls whom the nation had used and degraded, and on whom the South had built an oligarchy similar to the colonial imperialism of today, erected on cheap colored labor and raising raw material for manufacture.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • America
  • War
  • Today

• Being real is what is important.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Important
  • Real
  • Being Real

• You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Good
  • You
  • Education

• I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Against
  • Boycotts

• Randomness works well in search-sometimes better than humans.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Search

• I don't think of myself as a role model, but I do feel like, for women out there who are trying to figure out who they are, the most important choice to make is to live a life that's true to who you are inside. And let your ideas and your heart and your mind drive your fashion choices.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • Life
  • Important
  • Women

• The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.

  

  James F. Cooper
  • Life
  • World
  • Business

• As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night, nearly all the contestants know nearly all the answers, so it's just a matter of who masters buzzer rhythm the best.

  

  Ken Jennings
  • Trying
  • Night

• You don't realize how valuble something is until you lose it...

  

  Billy Howerdel Ashes Divide
  • Valuble

• I remember performing in Russia when I was twenty, and I stayed at this hotel with 3000 rooms. There were sailors knocking on my room door, wanting to barter stuffed animals with Marlboros that I had been instructed to bring!

  

  Anne Akiko Meyers
  • Performing
  • Room
  • Sailors

• There can be theory but, you know, the problem is you've got to be able to test it. So theories are one thing, testing is another.

  

  Brian Schmidt