Richard Feynman Quotes
I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
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But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium until 2012, I don't care.' I then won Olympic gold.
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Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.
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The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I'd never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was.
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I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.
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I moved to L.A. and watched a lot of local television news, and I started to see the burn logos up on the upper right hand corner - On-Scene Video, RMG Media Group, and all these other ones. I just became intrigued with it.
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I never planned on being an actress or Wonder Woman, but everything just happened, and I am grateful and happy and in love with what I do.
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I don't feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
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So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.
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It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
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My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
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I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.
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The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.
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People come to my places to eat dinner with their friends, not with me.
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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When I read about myself in the media, even I don't recognize me. The myth of Kevin Mitnick is much more interesting than the reality of Kevin Mitnick. If they told the reality, no one would care.
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I don't think children have competed with my career, they have clarified it. My children ground me. They make me honest.
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I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
