George Johnson Quotes
Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing Chopin with a boxing glove on one hand and a catcher's mitt on the other.
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I went in and auditioned for one of the main guys for 'The League' when it was first casting, and I was so excited because I was like, 'Oh my God, this is my life!' I love fantasy football, and I play with my buddies, and my wife is frustrated with it.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov -
Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.
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Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.
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When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
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In history, the millions win; that is democracy.
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I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama.
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The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
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A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.
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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
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Being myself is what got me to where I am.
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One has to respect the preferences of another creature, no matter its size, and I did so gladly.
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I have studios in the different places where I live - in Ibiza, Paris and London - but they're not crazy studios, they're just rooms with good monitors, and all I do is plug my laptop in. It's a different way to make music, but for me, I love it, because it's more connected to the world.
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If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.
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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
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Insatiate archer! could not one suffice?Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain;And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.
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Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing Chopin with a boxing glove on one hand and a catcher's mitt on the other.
