Bill Courtney Quotes
A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself.
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I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles – normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.
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I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.
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I love anything that makes you feel empowered. I'm 'bout that - you can't be scared.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
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Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.
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Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.
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The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.
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Man is a tool-making animal.
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I take yoga classes, do a mile run, and of course take part in some kind of water sport.
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In junior high, I was still writing poems and stories. In college, I was a journalism major. When I got out of college, I went to work for an educational publisher, so I was still writing, developing curriculums.
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I am very proud of being Jewish.
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No matter how exhausted I am after a show, I always take my makeup off. Even if it's just with a remover wipe.
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Our next black president, I think, can be more like Muhammad Ali.
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Disco is just jitterbug.
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Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I explain to them it's to be expected, because I am a man.
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I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer.
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If all you were left believing was what you were seeing, it'd be nothing but desperate. To have hope, you're going to have to imagine that there's something behind the curtain.
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Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don't know where she intends to drive it.
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I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.
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It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
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The growth of the human mind is still high adventure, in many ways the highest adventure on earth.
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High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?
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A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself.
