Allan Sandage Quotes
Science cannot answer the deepest questions. As soon as you ask why is there something instead of nothing, you have gone beyond science.

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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not living in Europe.
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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.
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I don't ever want to feel complacent.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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I found that the quality of TV material that came to me was so great and was just often better than the film material I got. And when I find a good movie that I really like, I jump on it because it's exciting to do.
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If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.
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The Price Is Right can really get me going.
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Once you've figured out how to wait on people and clean toilets, it makes you very mindful of how you treat the people who are serving you.
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I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.
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Why was his hair tinted with gold? An evil omen was golden hair in my life. Why had not the brown of his eyes crushed out and killed the blue? - for brown were his father’s eyes, and his father’s father’s. And thus in the Land of the Color-line I saw, as it fell across my baby, the shadow of the Veil.
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Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave.
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We never love someone. We just love the idea we have of someone. It's a concept of ours - summing up, ourselves - that we love.
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There shall always be much silence in a man's conduct. He shall speak only about a matter concerned with wisdom or matters that are necessary to keep his body alive.
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If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
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If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.
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I came to Mumbai for my internship in advertising in an ad agency. Back then, a senior from my college who was working for Balaji asked whether I wanted to act. I agreed, and I didn't even know when it became my passion and my hobby.
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Science cannot answer the deepest questions. As soon as you ask why is there something instead of nothing, you have gone beyond science.