M. King Hubbert Quotes
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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The conflict between religion and science is inherent and (very nearly) zero-sum. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
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I'm not super into sports.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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To be honest, I haven't had a lot of time off.
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To us, with our broader outlook, our more complicated interests, our more elusive moods, their small bright world is apt to seem uninteresting and out of date, unless we spend some patient sympathy in the discovery of the real charm and the real beauty that it contains.
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I don't play accurately — any one can play accurately — but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.
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In terms of talking with my collaborators as they came onboard - Jeannine Oppewall, our production designer, Dante Spinotti, our cinematographer, and so forth - I said to them, "Let's pretend that this is a place like Honolulu. Let's ignore the fact that all these other movies have been made here for decades and try to come at it with a fresh eye, as if it were an exotic city that people aren't that familiar with. And let's present our own view of it, create a world that's unique to this movie [L.A Confidential].
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History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations.
