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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I remember keeping a lot of journals and diaries and trying to form a complete thought just based off of those immediate, raw feelings. If anything, I was conscious about how I just always wanted to be as honest as possible, no matter how vulnerable it would make me seem.
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I don't come from Lake Wobegon, and that world is not mine. It's not that funny to me. It's funny to other people, and I'm not judging it, but the world that I come from is not considered funny by other people as well. There's so much pain in it.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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The nonphysical law allows you to use nonphysical causes to create nonphysical effects and also physical effects. This does not mean that you are not in control of what you create. On the contrary! It means that you are entirely free to create what you want, provided you are aware of how the nonphysical law of cause and effect works.
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Curiously, a principle affects your life whether you are aware of it or not. For instance, the principle of gravity was working long before the apple ever fell on Newton's head. But once it did, and he understood it, then we as a society were free to harness this principle to create, among other things, airline flight.
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One will only be free when one plays and one's society will become a piece of art
