Nima Arkani-Hamed Quotes
The hierarchy problem is the elephant in the room. ... And it originally showed up in the context of doublet–triplet splitting problem.
Quotes to Explore
-
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
-
Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
-
Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
-
I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
-
Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
-
When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.
-
I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
-
Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
-
I know I'm happy and can't wait to see where my career will go next. This isn't the end for any of us. I can understand why they are upset but I want them to move forward and look for the future.
-
Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made. I never thought I would actually call him my boss, let alone meet Mick Jagger or have any reason to say my name in the same sentence as his.
-
I see city finances within the context of an economic strategy... We are going to solve our financial problems by growing the economy, and I have rejected some corners that have called for a slash-and-burn approach, and I've rejected others who have called for raising taxes and leaving government as is.
-
Those who want to cut Social Security are prepared to take hostages, manufacture crises, and use scare tactics to undermine the retirement security of Americans.
-
To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'
-
The genius of Kate Middleton is that she hasn't gone too far. She's still dressing in a way that people can relate to.
-
It's nice to know there are some things in early 21st-century post-industrial culture that don't change very fast. I am one of those.
-
There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.
-
Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?
-
At times people in the press were also useful to me.
-
Christianity had ceased to be the creed of the poor. He spoke with pompous exaggeration. Whether man were the best or the worst of created beings.
-
I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
-
Conflict is a great thing to start with. For me as a songwriter, I am constantly trying to solve problems.
-
Government cannot solve all our problems, even in normal times, much less during a catastrophe of nature that reminds man how little he is, despite all his big talk.
-
I laugh about it all the time, but, for whatever reason, a lot of people think that I wear a wig. I get emails and tweets about people commenting on my hair being a wig. It's one of the strangest but most entertaining things I've read about myself online.
-
The hierarchy problem is the elephant in the room. ... And it originally showed up in the context of doublet–triplet splitting problem.
