Manfred Eigen Quotes
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It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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I am the protector of all lives. I am present even before the creation. I am prime God.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
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I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move... We have seen the barbaric situation of the 21st century in Swat. So why should I be afraid now?
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If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature.
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On the PBS recording of 'The Light in the Piazza' backstage, you get to see me doing some sweet lunges down the hallway of the Vivian Beaumont.
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I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.
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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
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I was madly in love with Elvis Presley. Dad wasn't into it at all, at least not for himself as a performer. He used to say, 'Mr. Cole does not rock n' roll.'
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I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.
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When CNN does a story and then says, 'Tweet us what you think' - why? Why does it matter what I think? Why should my thoughts be broadcast on a national news program? It's enough for me to just sit and listen and learn.
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Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind the words. Really, authority is about truth: honest-living truth.
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Faith is one foot on the ground, one foot in the air, and a queasy feeling in the stomach.
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Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
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I don't look at our society today too much. My focus is still in the past, and part of the reason is because what I do - the wellspring of art, or what I do - l get from the blues. So I listen to the music of a particular period that I'm working on, and I think inside the music is clues to what is happening with the people.
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One will only be free when one plays and one's society will become a piece of art
