Richard Feynman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job; my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you're not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don't think that is particularly healthy.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.
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Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.
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What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.
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By being friends with all, we are not alone.
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We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.
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People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of charisma, a bully charisma, which is kinda frowned upon.
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Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.
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I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.
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Every politician deep inside is authoritarian. If the person doesn't have ambition, that's not a politician. Society needs to put every ambitious, every effective politician into such a position that it helps - that this person helps improve society. That's why I'm always talking about need to change the system rather than should we go with Navalny or Gudkov or Yavlinsky or Khodorkovsky. We all have our ambitions. We're all ambitious people.
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The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity affecting the whole body of science, known, it is true, to men of insight, but not generally admitted.
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All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.
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The science of religion is one science within philosophy; indeed it is the final one. In that respect it presupposes the other philosophical disciplines and is therefore a result.
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Scientists study physical things, then describe them; engineers describe physical things, then build them.
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Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.
