Richard Feynman Quotes
People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way--in such a way that often nobody believes me!
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
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Before 'Gremlins,' I was a normal person, then within two weeks of the movie coming out, I couldn't walk into a store without people turning around and staring. It's exciting and also scary because everyone starts telling you how amazing you are.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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Concerning Poland, I can only say that the peoples of Central Europe and Hungary are a community in fate, to the death. Many of us would spill our blood for Poland any time. And vice versa: in an emergency, many Polish people would give his life to protect Hungarians. This has happened more than once over the course of history.
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With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.
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When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.
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It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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Obviously, you need talent to do well in your sport, but I think hard work goes a long way. You need to be lucky within the sport too, though. In badminton, you can benefit from good draws and people getting injured.
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Music is not free to make. Studios are going under because people now work at laptops. Quantity over quality is what begins to happen; the idea of what quality is has changed.
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Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.
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Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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I believe in books.
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The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States.
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The Montreal Olympics were in July 1976, the bicentennial, at the height of patriotism.
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Everybody matters. Everyone just wants to be heard.
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People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way--in such a way that often nobody believes me!
