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.
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
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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.
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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.
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Love is a wonderful thing that one misses.
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.
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The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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I think there is a chance that Indian writers in America will start producing very interesting books in the years to come.
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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.
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Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.
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The kind of roles which you get, people identify with your roles, and it then leads to the kind of brands you get.
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In a sad twist of fate, the bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act was debated on the floor of the House of Representatives the same day that terrorists struck again.
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We should fight terror, by all means, but not at the cost of cutting off any chance of talks with the pragmatists.
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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
