David Mermin Quotes
Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining, too confining. The insistence on bland impersonality and the widespread indifference to anything like the display of a unique human author in scientific exposition, have transformed the reading of most scientific papers into an act of tedious drudgery.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.
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I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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I went up for the first time when I was 18. It's a great place - I love L.A.; I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle.
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I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.
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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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I have got everything which a politician needs.
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If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.
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The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.
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Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.
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Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.
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You've got to be before you can do and do before you can have.
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True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.
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I was one of the worst attorneys. I didn't enjoy law.
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Doing 'SunTrap' after 'The Chase' is dipping into something different. That's the whole basis of what I wanted to do with my career. I didn't want to do the same thing all the time.
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Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.
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It should be that every child, when they leave school, can do ten meals, because when they leave home, they've got to be able to eat healthily. Blow the science of it and everything else. They've just got to be able to know what's good for them, how to buy it, and how to make a few dishes that they enjoy and don't cost too much.
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Any terrorism is an attack on libertarian values.
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Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining, too confining. The insistence on bland impersonality and the widespread indifference to anything like the display of a unique human author in scientific exposition, have transformed the reading of most scientific papers into an act of tedious drudgery.
