George Dyson Quotes
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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My character in the first instalment of 'GOW' was very shy and reserved. It was completely different from 'Kahaani,' where I played a no-nonsense cop. And in the second instalment of 'GOW,' it is again very different.
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I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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The whole concept of witches was that women were speaking up for themselves and fighting for their rights. The whole concept of witchcraft came into play to hold down women and women's empowerment.
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We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
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If you’re going to do something that crazy, save it for when it’ll make a difference. But absent near-omniscience there’s no way to know when that is. You can only make your best approximate calculation. You can only make your throw and try to puzzle out the results afterward.
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People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But often, Europeans just don't get the Asian codes. Believe me, the message is being expressed OK.
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My mother's family didn't speak much about Europe: My mother was born in 1935, and her new-world parents were the sort who didn't want to worry their children about the war.
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We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vader in all of us.
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The unlimited replication of information is generally a public good.
