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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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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There was always Helmut Newton coffee table books around when I was growing up.
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The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps.
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That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
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I wasn't always minimal. In the early days, I was laying it on as thickly as I could, trying very hard to get it right. But I found that the harder I tried, the more tired whatever it was I was working on looked. And then I grew tired of it as well.
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Our destinies are our own, if we have the courage to take control of them.
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I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would think about the next level, which was getting selected for the state side. I'm a person who lives very in the moment.
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We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.
