Lee Smolin Quotes

There is nothing beyond the world except what we see, no background to it except its particular history.

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• I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • World
  • Important
  • Country

• The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • World
  • Why
  • You

• I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Country
  • Species

• We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Children
  • Beautiful

• I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Believe
  • History
  • Knowledge

• People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • World
  • Hope

• I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old Testament tradition you find flames, the burning bush.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Experience
  • History
  • Student

• You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
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  • You
  • More

• You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Day

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• 'Thrones' would be the perfect platform to send a progressive message because right now, our politicians aren't telling us any truths. It's hard to find a good, meaningful message, so I think it's up to storytellers, television shows, and films to have an impact on the world conversation. Is that not what film and television is for?

  

  Finn Jones
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• I never really felt I had the same respect as my male team-mates. My opinion wasn't worth as much. I used to sit quietly in meetings and not say anything, as I knew my opinions would be disregarded. And that's after I had become Olympic champion and multiple world champion.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • World
  • Team
  • Respect

• I like Ned Leeds. I love the character so much. He's a very new character in the MCU. I think he's a very fresh take on people in the superhero world. Some superheroes crack under pressure, and Ned Leeds, who is not a superhero, doesn't.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
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  • Good
  • Children

• A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • World
  • Rest
  • Looking

• What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • World
  • Myself

• I think when I was 12, I started reading Evelyn Waugh, and I loved Evelyn Waugh so much, and I thought: 'This is how the world really is. If I could be Evelyn Waugh, then I would be happy.'

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • World
  • Happy
  • Reading

• Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Doing
  • Lord
  • Rings

• Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Book
  • Terrible
  • Video

• There's only one way to gain mountain sense, and that's to be in the mountains a lot. Unfortunately, when you're a young climber, you have none. You're out there, and your risk level is high.

  

  Alex Lowe
  • High
  • Risk
  • Mountain

• President Obama has contempt for real money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Real
  • Money
  • President

• Once I get on a roll, it's hard to stop me.

  

  Jason Pierre-Paul
  • Stop

• There is nothing beyond the world except what we see, no background to it except its particular history.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • World
  • History