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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Sometimes you go to home plate, and you have an idea, like a clear idea, of what they're going to throw to you. I think that's all: getting better pitches to hit, realizing when you hit the ball better, what pitch you hit, if you're chasing too much. If you figure out all that, you can get a little better as a player.
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I was joking earlier when I said that all writers are manic depressives, but it's a joke with a lot of truth behind it. For fiction writers and poets, too, there's something wrong with you and you do this art as a way of correcting it or addressing it in some way.
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I lost a dear friend of mine from a rugby injury at 26. We don't usually deal with mortality at that early age and it's given me an appreciation of time, of trying to fit everything in.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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Ronald Reagan's long journey has finally drawn to a close, ... optimism and ... Western can-do spirit.
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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.
