Richard Feynman Quotes
The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.
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I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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My grandmother was fond of painting and playing the piano. She had been given lessons by Emmanuel Chabrier, who used to spend the summer months in nearby Membrolle.
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I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
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Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.
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If I were a customer, and I was given a dish with peppers, I would hate it. I also don't like blood sausage.
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I think it's particularly stupid that filmmakers have traditionally said, 'Yeah, I like baseball, but the movie's not going to be about the intricacies of the game.' I mean, you wouldn't cast an overweight guy with stubble if you were doing a ballet film.
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There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.
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I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.
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I like to disappear in my roles because I don't have an assistant.
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Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect, they are permanent.
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Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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I think, like a lot of people on this issue, I have really changed my thinking here to, ‘I don’t ever want to stand in front of anybody’s happiness.’ That’s not my job, okay? If that word – ‘marriage’ – is really, really that important to you, I can go with it.
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I don't think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren't a lot of regular rules, the conversations in the house were always very open, dreams were a great thing to talk about, everybody was making something all the time.
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I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
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Most people go to the office and sit at a desk. When firefighters go to the office, we might birth a baby in the morning, save a drowning surfer in the afternoon, and run into a fire at night. What could be more interesting than that?
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The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
