Richard Feynman Quotes
The unanswerable mysteries... the attitude that all is uncertain... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect.
Quotes to Explore
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.
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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
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Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
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Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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I used to love fine dining, but I lost my appetite for it to a degree because sometimes it is too much about the effort and too little about the result.
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I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.
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Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
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We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.
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Our elders are always optimistic in their views of the present, pessimistic in their views of the future; youth is pessimistic toward the present and gloriously hopeful for the future. And it is this hope which is the lever of progress-one might say, the only lever of progress.
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Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human.
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People think I'm girlish and flippant, but I was an honours student. I was voted Girl Most Likely To Succeed at North Mesquite High in Texas. My best subject was science. I won a scholarship.
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Too many investors overvalue companies in the near term while undervaluing them in the long term.
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My career is just kind of crazy.
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I've always wanted to do theater in Chicago. Chicago is a big theater town-and, in some ways, I think this city is savvier and smarter than New York. Sometimes, I think it's a little too chic to go to theater in New York these days.
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I want to be remembered as, I hope, an amazing husband and a great father.
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Hollywood can't stand heroes who aren't sympathetic.
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Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance.
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If you go to a big publishing house, editorial aside, it's completely white.
Colson Whitehead -
I love doing voiceover work. I started doing voiceover work when I had just dropped out of school, and the first few professional jobs I got were plays, but then I started making money doing voiceovers.
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The unanswerable mysteries... the attitude that all is uncertain... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect.
