Richard Feynman Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
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I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.
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I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
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A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.
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Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!
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The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
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Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.
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Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.
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Liberals in blue states just think that they are on the right side of history, and anybody that disagrees with them has to be a troglodyte or a neanderthal.
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I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology because my dad was a science teacher. I kept writing all those years.
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
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I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.
