Plutarch Quotes
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
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Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.
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'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.
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According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
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The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life's goals, from buying a house, getting an MBA, or learning Spanish could be quantified in both time and money.
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Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.
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In 10 months, I was replaced from three films. That's when I realised I need to take my work seriously. It's a blessing I didn't get things easy. If I had, I wouldn't realise the value of success.
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity - a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.
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I was joined by Carlo Rovelli, and we were able to make a full-fledged quantum theory of gravity... This became loop quantum gravity.
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I read that speaking in front of a crowd is the number-one fear in America. I found that amazing. Number two was death. Number two! That means that, if you're ever at a funeral, you'd rather be in the casket than giving the eulogy.
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I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.
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With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it's like, give me a break. That's not a restaurant, that's a dinner party.
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We stand strong together - as Americans - many cultures, races and faiths, but one nation under God.
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I do like to look at female drummers, because I am one.
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Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired.
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I love designing costumes that I can actually construct, working to create an environment that people want to be in.
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It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.
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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
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Rockets, moon shotsSpend it on the have notsMoney, we make it'Fore we see it you take itOh, make you wanna hollerThe way they do my lifeMake me wanna holler.
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Nyasaland was the perfect country for a volunteer. It was friendly and destitute; it was small and out-of-the-way. It had all of Africa's problems - poverty, ignorance, disease.
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I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.
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