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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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I've always felt that children are the flowers of our future.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Being real is what is important.
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I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.
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Randomness works well in search-sometimes better than humans.
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That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.
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My country is a disgrace to me, but you are a disgrace to your country.
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Paddy Ashdown: ...this is an agreement which the right hon. Lady will be entitled to regard with a certain pride and satisfaction as she looks back on the twilight days of her premiership...
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I love 'Forrest Gump;' I like sweet, cheery, happy movies. But it has some dark moments too.
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We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.
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Each person has unspeakable distress. When I remember the past, annoying, I cry; The reality of today is too cruel, too severe, and doesn't even offer me a dream; Imagining the future brings me yet another kind of tears
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Maybe all obligate carnivores are essentially the same. Can I eat that? Is it going to eat me? Is it a toy?
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To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.
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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.
