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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I do a lot of cardio. I think it's super important, especially for women. I don't have a tremendous amount of time to work out, so I find myself cramming in a cardio because that's all I can fit in. I think that if you don't have a lot of time, that it's the cleanest way to burn a few calories.
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WAKING AT NIGHT The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.
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I don't really try to tell people whether they should fight. It's definitely not for everybody.
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We have changing weather patterns, and we have climate change. This is the science. I hope that my party will come to be comfortable with this because we have to operate in the realm of knowledge and science.
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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.