Richard Feynman Quotes
Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
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I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Straight people are everywhere!
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I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?
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I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
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Bombay, which sold about 120,000 copies, is widely rated as my most successful work, though Roja is definitely the score that brought me where I am today.
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'Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they're rapping. It's easier to try to censor some kid who's swearing about poverty than it is to stop the poverty.'
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We've become now an oligarchy instead of a democracy. And I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards of the American political system that I've ever seen in my life.
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Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody's pressing comedy albums anymore.
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Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.
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Even to me, as I was trying to tell the government what had happened, it just didn't seem to matter.
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It's a little bit odd. The first time you do the play, you kind of throw yourself into it, trying to get the most out of all the individual moments. Then, a few hours later, you're still there, wondering what you could possibly do differently than what you just did a couple hours ago.
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If you walk into my wardrobe, it's kind of hilarious. It's a sea of black.
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Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this.
