Richard Feynman Quotes
We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
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Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How can German music not be represented by an article?
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I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.
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I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.
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A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived from the very best sources that are open to dwellers on this troubled and passionate planet.
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Sometimes, I have themes that interest me or that touch on larger issues but, really, I'm just trying to figure out the plot, or how the characters work. I'm trying to make the best story I possibly can.
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I've admired Anthony Hopkins for so long, and when I finally got to meet him in person, I became totally immobile and speechless! I stood there looking at him and couldn't say a word.
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We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
