Stephen Hawking (Stephen William Hawking) Quotes

I would never claim this. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

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• I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Help
  • Loved

• Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • May
  • Truth
  • Day

• The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Love
  • Story
  • Young

• Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Up
  • City
  • Second

• No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Hope
  • Courage
  • Homosexual

• The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Think
  • Man
  • Laugh

• When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • Good
  • Simple

• As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Children
  • Job

• It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.

  

  Kate Adie
  • People
  • Life
  • Day

• Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • People
  • Want
  • Fool

• The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the greatest good of all, but no human group has ever reached this ideal because of ignorance and selfishness.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Good
  • Men
  • Effort

• Dancehall culture in Europe is very close to Jamaica. Europe and Japan have a very close link to Jamaican dancehall culture, where it's all about sound-systems and horns and girls dancing all crazy - that happens a lot in those places.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Culture
  • Crazy
  • Europe

• He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him. Hence, the cost of production of a workman is restricted, almost entirely, to the means of subsistence that he requires for his maintenance, and for the propagation of his race.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Simple

• I want to have her back as an ingredient in the restoration of my past. Could I have wished her anything worse? Having got once through death, to come back and then, at some later date, have all her dying to do all over again? They call Stephen the first martyr. Hadn't Lazarus the rawer deal?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Death
  • Past
  • Dying

• Private misfortunes must never induce us to neglect public affairs.

  

  Alexandre Dumas

• I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.

  

  Branford Marsalis
  • Rest
  • Door

• I love CG - it's a great tool. I just don't think you should use it to replace reality; you should use it to augment and enhance. Do matte paintings, do composites, do replications, stuff like that, but you're taking something real and working with that as opposed to trying to fake it from scratch. The human brain can tell the difference.

  

  Neil Marshall
  • Great
  • Real
  • Trying

• I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.

  

  Charles Van Doren
  • Past
  • Action

• Some people in the industry warned me that I'd ruin my career, miss out on possible jobs, and potentially put my life in danger if I ever came out.

  

  Alyson Stoner
  • People
  • Life
  • Career

• I try to reciprocate and to give back to the fans with my performances, like a big 'thank you' for the love they show me.

  

  Diego Costa

• I would never claim this. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

  

  Stephen Hawking
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