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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I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.
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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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I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.
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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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It was important to feel that you were resisting the fascism around you. But we had no electricity to watch movies. We were imagining our movies.
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I wanted to impress people because I was kind of a kid who was lost in the crowd - was sort of my, feeling about childhood was being part of a big family.
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Comedy wasn't something I chose - it chose me.
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I don't know if I ever realized, initially, that I didn't tic when I was so focused on my acting. I think it was after I had already done it a few years, when I went, 'Hey, interesting that this happens.'
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Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
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The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.
