Richard Feynman Quotes
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.
Quotes to Explore
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.
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For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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As professional soccer players, we take our bodies to the extreme. We're the people at the gym that look like we're breaking the machines. Pushing our bodies to the limits is what makes us so strong and capable and Olympians. It's not an easy thing to consistently do over and over again to your body.
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I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.
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In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.
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If I don't go to the gym for a week, I just get thinner and thinner.
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I feel bad for my little cousins who don't see themselves being represented, or the little girls in my community who won't have a chance to see a Disney princess... who resembles them.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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I come from a council estate in Tower Hamlets, and by no means am I the only person who has done well - one of my friends is head of year in a great school in Twickenham. Another is a writer; another is an artist, a musician.
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I was born near a station. The first things that I saw in my life were the moving locomotives and trains, and I drew them as a three-year-old. Perhaps it is because of this that observations of movement are my impetus for my inspiration to create. Out of this I receive a creative experience of life, which is the source of creativity.
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I think we're all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical sciences is neurological science.
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Digital photography is, by definition, unfinished. You don't feel that after every 24 or 36 shots you have to change your film - you know you can go on for ever if you want. You can see the result immediately, and find out if your original idea is worth going on with or not, whether it can be corrected, whether it can be improved.
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People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and disorderly or sleeping around.
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Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.
