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Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.

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• When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • School
  • Greatest

• The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Accept

• I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Writing
  • Crazy
  • Always

• I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Car

• A man is as alive as he can communicate.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Man
  • Alive
  • Communicate

• Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • People
  • Everyone
  • System

• I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Want
  • Because
  • Patient

• When I was 14 years old, I was talking about much more mature things because of the writers that I had at the time. My first album was tied into what the culture was at that moment, which was Jodeci, Al B. Sure, Puff, The Hitmen. I reaped the benefits of being part of Bad Boy's movement. That was my introduction.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Culture

• I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Painting

• Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

  

  Beck
  • Art
  • Mother
  • Nature

• In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Christian
  • Opinion
  • Theatre

• Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.

  

  Felix de Weldon
  • London
  • Street
  • Bond

• Everything we earn we need as a reserve.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Need
  • Everything
  • Earn

• Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Find

• To me, I approach a small-budget, artsy, European movie the same way as a big commercial Hollywood movie. That's the most important thing. Hollywood usually represents this big dream in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• The way I usually put it is that as an SF writer, I'm never required to be right.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Way
  • Never
  • Writer

• Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Time
  • Waiting
  • Movies

• I was very insecure. I figured the only thing I can do is just work harder than everybody else and be useful. So I would anticipate when a client would need a cup of tea. I would anticipate when they wanted to rewind the tape. I would anticipate when they were going to do a vocal.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Work
  • Tea

• We're going to come back to Oregon, whether it's with another show, or a pilot, or a movie. We love working up there. I think it's got one of the most amazing talent pools of any state in the union.

  

  Dean Devlin
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Amazing

• Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Why
  • Experience
  • Science

• We're subject to the same forces of capitalism that have built the entire American economy. Strong returns induce more capital flow, which creates more competitors, and you have to evolve and get better, or you die.

  

  Kenneth C. Griffin
  • American
  • Strong
  • Die

• Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.

  

  Alfred the Great
  • Science
  • Moves
  • Slowly