David Mermin Quotes
Everything, no matter how evident or obvious, should be doubted, questioned, viewed with suspicion....There is much to be gained from the discovery that one has been deeply, persistently, and utterly wrong.David Mermin
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
Karl Ove Knausgard -
There was a time when caddies couldn't wear shorts.
Dan Jenkins -
There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.
Isaac Hayes -
With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.
Vince Gill -
When I was younger, I went through a phase when I didn't like my hair. Because the school I went to was primarily Caucasian, there wasn't anyone who had my hair texture. I remember one day I straightened my hair, and that was the first day that people gave me compliments on it.
Zendaya -
The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
Garrison Keillor
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I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.
Odette Annable -
Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
Taylor Hackford -
My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
Safra A. Catz -
I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.
Warren Spector -
I have the picture in my mind of how emotional I will feel if I win again.
Yani Tseng -
I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great memories.
Sam Rockwell
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Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands, but the mission was called off on the eve of the attack.
Jack Adams -
Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
I always see that there's a - from a philosophical point of view - there's the appearance of things that everybody wants you to think is happening, then there's the reality underneath it.
Larry Bishop -
Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
Karen Armstrong -
It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.
Natasha Trethewey -
While the traditional banks and credit card companies lock down access to their payments infrastructure to a handful of trusted parties, Bitcoin is open to all.
Naval Ravikant
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Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it.
Ariel Pink -
No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
Henry Ward Beecher -
In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan's writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.
Haruki Murakami -
I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.
Socrates -
Everything, no matter how evident or obvious, should be doubted, questioned, viewed with suspicion....There is much to be gained from the discovery that one has been deeply, persistently, and utterly wrong.
David Mermin