Richard Feynman Quotes
If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 100,000, I know he's full of crap.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.
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Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul - but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity.
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I shampoo every other day and only do the roots. I can't shampoo all the way down to the end, because it will dry my hair out. I use a mask multiple times a week to restore moisture.
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I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
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My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
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There's no people like show people.
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When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and being a ham. An agent was there and she was telling me, 'Hey, do you think you'd want to go out on auditions?' I was like, 'Yeah, what's an audition? Sure, I'll do it.'
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Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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A lot of times I watch sporting events, and there are things I want to say and things I see that don't get said or talked about.
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Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.
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Being called Gary. It's a crap name. I wish I'd been called by my middle name, Winston.
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I love brunch. Brunch is my favorite meal.
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To put it bluntly, the push for 'college for all' sets up students to fail.
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Everyone should have cancer one time - then you'd know that other things aren't important. The guy that gives you the finger at the stoplight don't mean nothing anymore. You come home and something's cold, or you didn't get something in the mail. Big deal. You want to get up every day and see your family and your friends.
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I guess I've kind of recognized what my worth is and what my specific brand of humor is. And that's not necessarily being the guy who's super witty and saying a joke every second. I'm the guy who you throw in a bizarre scenario, and I'll play it as real as possible.
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The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.
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One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years.
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If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 100,000, I know he's full of crap.
