Galileo Galilei Quotes

Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.

Galileo Galilei

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• Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

  

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• The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

  

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• All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.

  

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• I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.

  

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• Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.

  

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• Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

  

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• I think the impulse took shape in early childhood when I was very ill with lymphoma for a number of years. I spent a lot of time in hospitals and sick-rooms, being read to by various relatives, and I learned to associate books with love and attention.

  

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• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

  

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• Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

  

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• Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.

  

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• I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

  

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• If you fire people, you fire customers.

  

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• I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Time
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• There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.

  

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• I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.

  

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• There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.

  

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• The journey matters as much as the goal.

  

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• The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form...

  

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  • God
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• God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.

  

  Lenny Kravitz
  • God

• The explosion was now officially designated an 'Act of God.'But, thought Dirk, what god? And why?What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo?

  

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  • God
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• If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.

  

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  • World
  • Women
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• Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • God
  • Amazed
  • Infinitely