Steven Strogatz Quotes
When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
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I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened. I didn't want to be violated in that way.'
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I have invariably been in love when I haven't had the same reciprocated emotion at all. I don't choose to talk about my personal life because I believe that I don't want to, and I believe my personal life is personal.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
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That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.
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That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.
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Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
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We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.
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Seasonality in winter doesn't have to mean sleep-inducing, stew-like, starchy casseroles.
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
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Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.
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Usually if I find a film that's challenging, that I'm intrigued by, I want to watch it again knowing what the ending is. I found that with something like 'The Godfather Part II.' I think it took me three watches to fully experience it in the way it was intended.
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It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
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I have some property. We have a few acres, so I like working on it, whether it's cutting stuff down, cleaning stuff up, building steps, or working with concrete, you know, brickwork.
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In some causes silence is dangerous.
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Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
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The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth... It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths.
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I have always done the opposite of what I was trained to do... Having little technical background, I became a photographer. Adopting a machine, I do my utmost to make it malfunction. For me, to make a photograph is to make an anti-photograph.
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When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.
