Richard Feynman Quotes
I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
Quotes to Explore
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
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I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
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Nature hates calculators.
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Only silence perfects silence.
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The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.'
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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
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On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego.
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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
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Madonna did amazing songs. She had an amazing sense of style, without a stylist. And she was flawed, and sometimes she admitted it. I'll fight the fight for Madonna. I think she should send me some chocolates or something to thank me.
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I was never as famous as all these kids. There was no social media. We weren't celebrity-obsessed as a culture. I feel like these kids are under a crazy microscope; they're basically brands. And they eventually implode and act out. They need a break, and they're not getting one.
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visiting Jackson Pollock’s studio: You do not work from nature. This is no good, you will repeat yourself. You work by heart, not from nature. Pollock reacted: 'I am nature
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I don't know why, but for whatever reason, that side of life - the celebrity and the spectacle - has never interested me.
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You know when you're thinking about what you want to be when you grow up, or how you want your life to pan out. I couldn't imagine anything better than living in a hotel so you'd never have to worry about washing up, making the bed, anything like that, and having a servant to come in and play all your favourite TV programmes.
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The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts: … I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not the labor of representing it and testing the fidelity of the representation.
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Simple minds, presumably, are the easiest to manage.
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I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.
