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 like to be involved with the scriptwriter early on, helping shape the story, and working out how the story can be told directorially.
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The people who hear what I'm saying when I haven't said a word... they are the ones I call friends.
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
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My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.
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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.
