Richard Feynman Quotes

Since then I never pay attention to anything by "experts". I calculate everything myself.

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• The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Words

• Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Opportunity

• Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.

  

  Ed Asner
  • College
  • Thought
  • Acting

• When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Husband

• If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Good
  • History

• I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Food
  • Like
  • Sometimes

• I've traveled around the world.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • World
  • Around
  • Traveled

• I do wear weaves and I do wear wigs.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Wear
  • Wigs

• I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Time
  • Great
  • Future

• Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • People
  • Nature
  • Question

• It may be a question whether machinery does not encumber; whether we have not lost by refinement some energy, by a Christianity entrenched in establishments and forms, some vigor of wild virtue. For every Stoic was a Stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • May
  • Energy
  • Lost

• At no point during his ordeal did Nero think of himself as 72% alive and 28% dead.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition; and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, undiscriminatingly used to express different and sometimes contradictory ideas.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Life
  • Different
  • Lazy

• Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand!

  

  Edward Everett Hale
  • Up
  • Hand

• The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

  

  Mary Hunter Austin
  • Life
  • Country
  • Fashion

• The worst thing that can happen is if you're stuck within a bubble and you think that is what life is all about. It's great to see other people and hear from people of different ages and opinions.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too.

  

  Christopher Egan

• Probably the first time I left Italy was to travel by train to Lourdes. I went with my mother and my grandmother - who was a very religious person - so it was a pilgrimage of sorts. I remember it as a very intense, but beautiful experience.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Remember

• In early '57, I bought a Fender Telecaster.

  

  Johnny Rivers

• In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.

  

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
  • Reality
  • Army

• I know them by their rave names, Deacon and Sushi. They're both total sweethearts, they loved to party, loved the rave scene.

  

  Amy Williams
  • Party
  • Names
  • Rave

• Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

  

  John Drinkwater
  • Events
  • Great Men
  • Rarest

• Since then I never pay attention to anything by "experts". I calculate everything myself.

  

  Richard Feynman
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