Sean M. Carroll Quotes
The fact that you can remember yesterday but not tomorrow is because of entropy. The fact that you're always born young and then you grow older, and not the other way around like Benjamin Button - it's all because of entropy. So I think that entropy is underappreciated as something that has a crucial role in how we go through life.Sean M. Carroll
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
Barbara Bush -
The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
Federica Montseny -
I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
Patrick deWitt -
The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.
G. Willow Wilson -
I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.
Olivia Newton-John -
I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
Nancy Friday
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
Little boys have amazing minds.
Ferdinand Marcos -
Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
Larry Flynt -
Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It's like being with an old boyfriend every single night watching the same things on TV. There is a world out there going on that I'm missing.
Bat for Lashes -
The truth is, what Americans enjoy about football is much of what makes the sport dangerous. However, I believe there must be a way to find the art of success and vitality in football, without the driving the level of impact that causes serious risk of head trauma, paralysis and other life-changing injuries.
Naveen Jain -
From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
Irwin Redlener
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I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.
Ice T -
I'm willing to do whatever I need to do to change.
Foxy Brown -
Now I'm going to put my eyelashes on and stretch my legs out and do a show.
Nana Visitor -
My whole thing is I’m not into civilization as a whole. The only actual solution is the eventual collapse and demise of civilization . . .I think it needs to happen, but no one, not even me, really wants it to happen.
Andy Hurley Fall Out Boy -
Knowing that certain nights whose sweetness lingers will keep returning to the earth and sea after we are gone, yes, this helps us to die.
Albert Camus
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I attended a big human space flight conference in Beijing and I was going as myself. And really, there weren't any NASA astronauts there, I was the only so-called American Astronaut there. We had astronauts from most of the other countries, certainly from Russia, from France, from Japan, several other countries, but it was a little bit odd because here we are at an international gathering of a lot of astronauts and I'm talking about somewhere upwards of 30 or so astronauts, and I'm the only American. And I wasn't even there in an official capacity.
Leroy Chiao -
A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.
E. B. White -
I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying Alive'. A German film called 'Fire and Ice'.
Gary Wright -
As with any new and innovative industry, entrenched interests - particularly the hotel industry - have attempted to squash the home-sharing movement.
Joe Gebbia -
The fact that you can remember yesterday but not tomorrow is because of entropy. The fact that you're always born young and then you grow older, and not the other way around like Benjamin Button - it's all because of entropy. So I think that entropy is underappreciated as something that has a crucial role in how we go through life.
Sean M. Carroll