Walter Lewin Quotes
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I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.
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Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.
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Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across their careers. 'The Autobiography of General Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs of the Civil War' is perhaps the best war memoir ever written.
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Top knots are the easiest thing to create.
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Throughout my childhood, I did a form of Irish dancing that was kind of the precursor to 'Riverdance.' It was a mixture of ballet and Irish dancing that my teacher, Patricia Mulholland, had invented, essentially. It was Irish ballet, and she would create performances based around the myths and legends of Ireland.
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Great necessities call out great virtues.
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I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.
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I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.
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What you see in 'Daredevil' and 'Jessica Jones' isn't the Hell's Kitchen of today; it's a version of what it was like.
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New Mexico is the second Hollywood. No, it is, it is. They built all sorts of film studios.
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This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.
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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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I quite enjoy sport, and I'm now an Olympic champion. It's a bit weird, isn't it?
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I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.
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I always wanted to do a light-hearted entertainer, and 'Bruce Lee' is such a film. The brother-sister sentiment and the relationship between father and son will be very good. The comedy will be hilarious, but it is not a forced comedy.
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There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
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It's getting harder to make decisions to work for the sake of working. Like everybody, I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply. Sometimes something like The Tourist comes up and it's just fun, but it's not as easy to find projects that I have to do. I have to be home and I have to do other things, but I don't have to work as much.
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It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many.
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I went to PE classes and started getting kids out there, ... They'd say, 'I've never played golf before,' and I'd say, 'I don't care.'
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There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news.
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Preach the Gospel with your life — without compromise!
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If you know only the name, you know nothing.
