Carlo Rovelli Quotes

Don't trust your teachers.

Carlo Rovelli

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• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Marriage

• Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Laughter
  • Laugh
  • Knowing

• Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Courage

• At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • World
  • Trying
  • Day

• Being married and having a child was not something I wanted, and I knew that at a very young age. I tend to be more solitary, and I'm truly a free spirit.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Age
  • Free
  • Child

• I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • People
  • Light
  • Support

• But no one can eat the flesh of a slaughtered animal without having used the hand of a man as slaughterer. Suppose that we had to kill for ourselves the creatures whose bodies we would fain have upon our table, is there one woman in a hundred who would go to the slaughterhouse to slay the bullock, the calf, the sheep or the pig?

  

  Annie Besant
  • Hand
  • Animal

• I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky

• A small item but the point is Nixon came in, shut it down, there was the shooting at Kent State, and gosh, I know liberals don't like it and when you look on Nexis and oh, the whole country was embarrassed. Well, I'm not embarrassed. That's what you do with a mob. They were monstrous at Kent State. It was being led by Bill Ayers.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Country
  • Small

• It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • World
  • Ugly

• Two quilters who have just met will be strangers only until their mutual passion for quilting is revealed. Then they can talk for hours like the best of friends.

  

  Jennifer Chiaverini
  • Friends
  • Passion

• Some men look great unshaven; others just look like they forgot to shave. Beards and mustaches can be really distinctive if you go for an earthy, rock-and-roll look like the Kings of Leon or the Killers.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Great
  • Men
  • Rock

• I'm not a pretty-boy kind of a girl; the Brad Pitts don't do anything for me.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Boy

• I had developed a sitcom with UPN, but it wasn't picked up.

  

  Charisma Carpenter
  • Up

• I did have reconstructive plastic surgery and a tummy tuck. And from hip to hip, there's a very big scar. It looks better than it did... So I say, if you don't like that skin, have it removed. This is my advice: if you're gonna do it - just go for it.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips
  • Advice

• With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on the move.

  

  Jim Doyle
  • Growing
  • Confidence

• A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Spiritual
  • Adversity

• I want to print books by people in the film industry.

  

  Brett Ratner
  • People

• Barack Obama wants teacher service scholarships.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Teacher
  • Service
  • Wants

• A buddy of mine was mad at his son the other day 'cause he got caught having sex with his teacher. I thought, 'Hey, that's pretty cool!' Problem was, he was home-schooled.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Home
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• When people think of the word 'drive,' they often think you have it or you don't, and that's where we're wrong. Drive is something that can be encouraged by a wonderful teacher, by a terrific classroom environment, by an awesome soccer team that you are on, and it can be squashed as well.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • People
  • Team
  • Environment

• I don't have to worry about writing jokes. I just tell stories about things that have happened to me. As long as I'm alive and I'm living and I'm experiencing different things every day, the show will always change.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Different
  • Long
  • Writing

• There is no accurate or useful 'profile' of students who engage in targeted school violence. Some come from good homes, some from bad. Some have good grades, some bad.

  

  Bill Dedman
  • Good
  • School
  • Bad

• Don't trust your teachers.

  

  Carlo Rovelli
  • Teacher