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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I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth.
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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 don't even watch Fox News usually in the prime time hours because I'm home with my kids and that's more important to me.
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I love New Orleans I love the way it looks. I love the way it feels.
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We had already planned my wedding when my brother passed away in 2012. When you're grieving, you don't necessarily want to think about something like that, but my brother told me that he wanted me to, so we went ahead and did it.
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No doors were locked, few shut. There were no disguises and no advertisements. It was all there, all the work, all the life of the city, open to the eye and to the hand.
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Every movie you do, you find something in yourself that you probably didn't know that you had, and a director will find something in you that you can nurture and find and bring for the next one.
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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.
