Hermann von Helmholtz Quotes
Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception of what he can attain with them, and how they may deceive him; so, too, it seemed to me necessary to investigate likewise the capabilities of our power of thought.
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I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.
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I'm afraid to fail again.
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Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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I've done a lot of costume dramas and things that are set in the past, and it's great to be able to have things that you can research and material that you can look at.
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Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.
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Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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Appointment viewing is dead, and I think it is going away.
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When I saw how people would react and be touched by my voice, this was the moment I thought maybe there's something more to this than just singing around the house.
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Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception of what he can attain with them, and how they may deceive him; so, too, it seemed to me necessary to investigate likewise the capabilities of our power of thought.
