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.
Ike Barinholtz
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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.
Flula Borg
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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.
Ted Rall
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
Sally Ride
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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.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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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.
Carine Roitfeld
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When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
Fionnula Flanagan
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In history, the millions win; that is democracy.
Nawal El Saadawi
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I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama.
Ramakrishna
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The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.
Fernando Pessoa
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Spangling the wave with lights as vainAs pleasures in the vale of pain,That dazzle as they fade.
Walter Scott
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A man of pleasure is a man of pains.
Edward Young
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
Alain de Botton
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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.
Dean Koontz
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Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
Desiderius Erasmus
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'Legacy code' often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
Bjarne Stroustrup
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It is a curious fact that with Through the Looking-Glass the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me. … I have done nothing in that direction since.
John Tenniel
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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.
Chin-Ning Chu
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I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.
Brigitte Bardot
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Once you get away and come back, you're ready to go. But knowing it's a fresh start, like a new season; we're taking it one game at a time.
Allen Iverson
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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.
George Johnson