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
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• A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
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  • Purpose
  • Lie

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

  

  Pankaj Mishra
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  • 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
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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.

  

  Jackson Browne
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  • Up
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• Love is a wonderful thing that one misses.

  

  Larry Drake
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  • Love Is

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

  

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

  

  Harrison Ford
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  • 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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• 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
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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.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
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  • Distance
  • Wonderful

• But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
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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.

  

  Sam Walton
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • British

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

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
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• I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
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  • Death
  • Rest

• 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

• I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.

  

  Doris Day
  • Family
  • Heaven
  • Wonderful

• It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. These may, perhaps, succeed for once, and borrow for awhile, from hope, a gay and flourishing appearance. But time betrays their weakness, and they fall into ruin of themselves. For, as in structures of every kind, the lower parts should have the greatest firmness--so the grounds and principles of actions should be just and true.

  

  Demosthenes
  • Time
  • May
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• It's because of 'ER' that I've gotten the opportunity to get the work.

  

  Abraham Benrubi
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Because

• I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role.

  

  Sandra Brown
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  • Standards
  • Straight

• 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
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