Michael Faraday Quotes
Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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We were on the cover of Women's Wear Daily, which was hardly rock 'n' roll, but it pleased me.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.
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The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
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Being single has its ups and downs, and being in a relationship has its ups and downs. It depends on how you balance it and how you handle your problems within your relationship.
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A monkey is unaware that atoms exist. Likewise, our brainpower may not stretch to the deepest aspects of reality. The bedrock nature of space and time, and the structure of our entire universe, may remain 'open frontiers' beyond human grasp.
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The historic nature of Israel's struggle for self-determination, freedom, and prosperity underscores the gravity of their circumstances and fortifies my commitment to America's responsibility as their ally.
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Is the painter a plagiarist because he sets his palette to nature?
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It's only and always the two of us who are involved, she who wants me to give her what nature and circumstances kept, I who can't give what she demands; she who gets angry at my inadequacy and out of spite wants to reduce me to nothing, as she has done with herself, I who have written for months and months to give her a form whose boundaries won't dissolve, and defeat her, and calm her, and so in turn, calm myself.
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I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of them had books attached.
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Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds.
