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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The bravest thing I've ever done is fly to New York. I'm simply terrified of aeroplanes - I am the woman you see weeping at the airport.
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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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And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. 'Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?
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I think things are dishonest if they're not aware of sadness.
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I do have the sense that, although there may be no one way to write a novel, there are many novelists who are in fact part of some sort of larger literary community, whether in the form of a writing group or an MFA program, to name two of the more common forms.
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In Europe they look upon jazz as art. In America it's a diversion. Somebody opens a restaurant and installs another band off to the side. People don't listen.
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Any cut to Pell Grants means low-income must take out additional loans or work longer hours - risk factors that increase their odds of dropping out of school.
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A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give.
