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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I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.
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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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Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.
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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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You always miss them characters you've played once you've walked away, but part of them always stays with you too.
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I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.
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There are times I am happy. There are times I am sad. But I always try to separate emotion from the need to reach for something stronger, deeper. And then no matter the emotion, I can reach for a stability that helps me accomplish what is the goal.
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The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more determined you will become.
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Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this.
