Niels Bohr (Niels Henrik David Bohr) Quotes
An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
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I love girl power.
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If you could get all the people in the organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.
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I start my day with granola, fresh fruit, and skim milk and end it with something healthy that also comes from my own kitchen.
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We are all familiar with the dove carrying an olive branch as a peace offering. The jewelry I've created pays tribute both to the messenger's noble mission and gardens as a refuge of peace and tranquility.
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Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.
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If somebody's in the community doing cool stuff, we'll hire them.
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Genre stuff is the most exciting stuff for an actor to play. I get to try new things, do things I would have never got the chance to do.
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When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.
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I often think of the novel as a form that celebrates social groups, and the short story being a form that is capable of celebrating an individual or a sort of insular little pair of people.
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The truth is, I was D.J.-ing on my college radio station in 1987, and I was called 'Mad Marj.'
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People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.
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How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. If in fact the frontiers of knowledge are being pushed further and further back (and that is bound to be the case), then God is being pushed back with them, and is therefore continually in retreat. We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don’t know.
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Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.
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An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.
