Alexander Polyakov Quotes
My main interests this year were directed towards string theory of quark confinement. The problem is to find the string Lagrangian for the Faraday's `lines of force',which would reproduce perturbative corrections from the Yang-Mills theory to the Coulomb law at small distances and would give permanent confinement of quarks at large distances.
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.
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He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
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No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
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I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.
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'Whatever it takes' is my opinion of method acting and, indeed, any other kind of acting. Look at Brando and De Niro. But it's not my cup of tea.
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Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.
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The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.
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You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.
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I really wasn't even aware that Batman and Superman had this kind of grudging friendship.
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When you make the schedule, you're not planning on playing deep into every single week, or at least I haven't in the past. I'm not physically or mentally ready to pick up my bags and go to Monte Carlo. I definitely have to look at what's best for my chances at (at the French Open).
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I've also learned that you can't be all things to all people. Whatever it is that you're successful at, that has to be the No. 1 goal.
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I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.
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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.
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The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?
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The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say.
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The TV business is like the produce section of the market. Today everything is fresh and glistening and firm. And tomorrow, when they find a bruise on you, they toss you out.
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What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.
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My main interests this year were directed towards string theory of quark confinement. The problem is to find the string Lagrangian for the Faraday's `lines of force',which would reproduce perturbative corrections from the Yang-Mills theory to the Coulomb law at small distances and would give permanent confinement of quarks at large distances.
