Jocelyn Bell Burnell Quotes
Looking at the universe as a whole; cosmology, the birth, life and death of the whole universe, we used to have a nice simple model. Then we had to add things like dark energy, and our nice simple picture is getting messier and messier and messier.
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying to navigate a very, very murky minefield of distractions, of disappointments, of deceptions. That's why you have to work on happiness.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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You can stroke people with words.
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You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
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I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.
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God is surrounded with people full of love who demand of him the benefits of love which are in his power: thus he is properly the king of love.
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All of us have to be committed to a life beyond our own aspirations.
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I got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro - pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you're going in your career by the company you keep.
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At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers.
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I feel that God has given me a very special opportunity that I should not let go to waste. I use the gift he has given me.
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Looking at the universe as a whole; cosmology, the birth, life and death of the whole universe, we used to have a nice simple model. Then we had to add things like dark energy, and our nice simple picture is getting messier and messier and messier.
