Richard Feynman Quotes
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
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Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.
Florenz Ziegfeld
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
Verne Troyer
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
Jackson Katz
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Walter Bagehot
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
Cara Buono
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
Hannah Simone
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
Tammy Duckworth
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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
Haim Ginott
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Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.
Barack Obama
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If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.
Gary Sinise
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The marshalling of those resources in order to obtain the maximum war effort for Australia, and a maximum degree of help and cooperation for Great Britain and the sister Dominions, is the primary objective of the new Department.
Harold Edward Holt
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Being here allows me to make the case that not all aging, narcissistic movie actors whose children could be mistaken for their grandchildren necessarily act with the same motivation.
Warren Beatty
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For me, there's nothing better than curling up in my favorite blanket on a cloudy or rainy day and just knit. Especially in front of the fireplace.
Magdalena Neuner
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How can German music not be represented by an article?
Wassily Kandinsky
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I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
Maggie Smith
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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the air and the light which vary continually. For me, it is only the, surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.
Claude Monet
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Let her who is forty call herself forty; but if she can be young in spirit at forty, let her show that she is so.
Anthony Trollope
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John Pilger: I read that you were a vegetarian and you are seriously concerned about the way animals are killed. Alan Clark: Yeah. John Pilger: Doesn’t that concern extend to the way humans, albeit foreigners, are killed?Alan Clark: Curiously not.
Alan Clark Dire Straits
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Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.
Saint Augustine
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Would it be possible for me to see something from up there?" asked Milo politely. "You could," said Alec, "but only if you try very hard to look at things as an adult does." Milo tried as hard as he could, and, as he did, his feet floated slowly off the ground until he was standing in the air next to Alex Bings. He looked around very quickly and, an instant later, crashed back down to the earth again. "Interesting, wasn't it?" asked Alex. "Yes, it was," agreed Milo, rubbing his head and dusting himself off, "but I think I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.
Norton Juster
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My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.
Sara Blakely
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The thing I like about our fans is that they are smart, they are good-looking and we can agree to disagree.
Martie Maguire The Chicks
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I'm open-minded. I don't consider myself gay or hetero, I just am. I've had experiences all over the planet but it always comes down to just me, but I think at this point if I had an ongoing relationship I believe it would be with a man.
Dana Plato
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We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
Richard Feynman