Charles Seife Quotes
The infinite zero of a black hole-mass crammed into zero space, curving space infinitely-punches a hole in the smooth rubber sheet. The equations of general relativity cannot deal with the sharpness of zero. In a black hole, space and time are meaningless.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
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The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.
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There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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I'm a working actor. I don't make my own work, so it's the opportunities that are presented to me.
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The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.
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I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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Sometimes, once a fight starts, you have to do what you have to do to win.
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Second, if you're the boss, just because they don't ask doesn't mean your employees don't have needs.
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In the lonely hours, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about eternal things. I have contemplated the comforting doctrines of eternal life.
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The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.
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Satire doesn't effect change.
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I'm a real lazy, slow kind of person.
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The infinite zero of a black hole-mass crammed into zero space, curving space infinitely-punches a hole in the smooth rubber sheet. The equations of general relativity cannot deal with the sharpness of zero. In a black hole, space and time are meaningless.
