Saul Perlmutter Quotes

It seemed like my favourite kind of job - a wonderful chance to ask something absolutely fundamental: the fate of the Universe and whether the Universe was infinite or not

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• When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. But if you see a picture of them on the weekend or on vacation, there's a good chance they look terrible and unstylish.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Picture
  • Doubt

• If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Wisdom

• I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.

  

  Laura Marano
  • School
  • High
  • Kind

• People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Love is a wonderful thing that one misses.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Love
  • Wonderful
  • Love Is

• Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • You

• We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Change
  • Chance
  • Changes

• I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.

  

  Randeep Hooda
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  • Drama
  • Hero

• When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Life
  • Time
  • Kind

• Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Human
  • Distance
  • Wonderful

• Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Beginning
  • Fate
  • Retail

• Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like being in a womb.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Kind
  • Better
  • Boat

• When it comes to the British monarchy, I prefer to be seduced by an image than presented with a real person. It's kind of a Warhol thing.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Real
  • Kind
  • British

• Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Great
  • Culture
  • Fate

• The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • People
  • Kind
  • Majority

• Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

  

  Tacitus
  • Fall
  • Service
  • Chance

• You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for what I believe in.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Believe
  • Chance
  • Vote

• Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.

  

  Dan Colen
  • God
  • Art
  • Kind

• It used to be on the Internet no one knew you were a dog. Now not only does everyone know that you are a dog, they know what kind of a dog you are, who you run with, where you hide your bones, the accidental piddle behind the couch, the fight you got into with the boxer, and your thoughts on the hot poodle down the street.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • Kind
  • Dog
  • Run

• Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn't see a space in which we could get anything together.

  

  David Bowie
  • Together
  • Space
  • Commitment

• When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.

  

  Yash Chopra
  • Today
  • College
  • Brother

• Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Company
  • Records
  • Happenings

• It seemed like my favourite kind of job - a wonderful chance to ask something absolutely fundamental: the fate of the Universe and whether the Universe was infinite or not

  

  Saul Perlmutter
  • Kind
  • Chance
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