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 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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I've been driving race cars professionally for a while: 200 mph types of things.
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I've never really tried to copy anyone; I like to have my own style.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.
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I'm still the best Keith Moon-style drummer in the world.
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America faces many challenges...but the enemy I fear most is complacency. We are about to be hit by the full force of global competition. If we continue to ignore the obvious task at hand while others beat us at our own game, our children and grandchildren will pay the price. We must now establish a sense of urgency.
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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.
