Richard Feynman Quotes
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.
Quotes to Explore
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.
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Make-up is an extension of your clothes.
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When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.
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I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.
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Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs.
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Horror movies are all about getting your attention; you always have to be on guard. People love to be on the edge - there's nothing like a surprise.
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I have a collection of vintage sundresses, and I've never worn them because for some reason I always opt for shorts and a t-shirt. I wish I could commit to them. I will. I have a few really great pieces I've been holding onto for years.
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I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.
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Is anything more certain than that in all those vast times and spaces, if I were allowed to search them, I should nowhere find her face, her voice, her touch? She died. She is dead. Is the word so difficult to learn?
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'My God, oh my God,' he said. 'Six hundred men.'
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Globalization is not in itself a folly: It has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.
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I have too much drive and determination to let anything falter me. Because I know that life's short and there's so much that I wanna do, and I can't do anything that might hold me back or get stuck in.
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Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.
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My aspiration is that M&M become one of the most customer-centric organizations in the world. If we focus on understanding our customers, we will be able to develop customer-centric innovations.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.
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Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
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There is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death. This suggests to me that it is not at all inevitable and that it is only a matter of time before biologists discover what it is that is causing us the trouble.
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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.
