Paul Dirac Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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Those who go along get along.
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I'd like to be an actress when I'm older. I sometimes do improv. I used to do it with my dad.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
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Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go - not too often, but every now and then - to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records.
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The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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I don't have a complex mind.
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I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometric progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.
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People who are scared don't live life.
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The most horrifying thing I ever did was work as a steward on an airplane. I wanted to get hired by United. I thought, 'With my languages, this will be amazing; I will work in First Class.' But I could only get a job with an airline going from Newark, New Jersey to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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I have always been intrigued by other cultures, and traveling to foreign lands has always been a part of my personal passion for learning about our world.
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I grew up in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and I'm a huge Red Sox fan. I've probably been to Fenway 40 times. I've been pretty lucky as a sports fan because the Patriots have won Super Bowls and the Red Sox have won World Series during my lifetime.
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Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it'll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.
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A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give.
