Alan Alda Quotes
I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.
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I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.
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I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.
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Dave Chappelle is one of my comedic inspirations. His perspective is crazy, and he's super sharp.
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Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
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Since Mashable's inception, some of our most popular articles have focused on the science behind the world's coolest innovations.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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Even though my dad was a manager in the minor leagues, I still traveled around with him and saw it from the field out. Now, as an owner, you're kind of looking from the whole baseball activity from outside in, from a fan's perspective.
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
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I've had meetings with Fidel Castro. I've had meetings with Kim Il-Sung. I've had meetings with other dictators. I've met with the Butcher of Beijing. You know, I think it's important to hear, you know, each other's perspective.
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I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.
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Groupon's model: Getting the group discount rate first, finding the group second. The daily deal goes out and, if a minimum number of people sign up, they can all share in the group rate. Vendor gets customers, customers get a discount, Groupon gets a cut.
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I've always been a fan of science fiction. My family, we all used to watch 'Star Trek' together, which is kind of a nerdy family activity.
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We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.
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I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.
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When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.
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When I read about genetics, I see breakthroughs every day. And while I'm trying to learn more about behavioral science, I must say that I don't feel I get tremendous intellectual stimulation from most of the things I read.
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There are seasons in life. Don't ever let anyone try to deny you the joy of one season because they believe you should stay in another season... Listen to yourself. Trust your instincts. Keep your perspective.
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But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be.
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Even though I wasn't born or raised in El Paso, it'll always be a part of me until the day that I die.
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Novelists seem to fall into two distinct categories - those that plan and those that just see where it takes them. I am very much the former category.
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There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.
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I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.
