Lee Smolin Quotes
Unfortunately, so far... a truly background independent formulation of string theory has not been achieved... It is often called the search for M theory...
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Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.
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I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.
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You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to support artists. This is what was happening in the '90s, and I was very fortunate to be a part of that.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
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I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.
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My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.
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I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.
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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.
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I've been blessed in my career to be able to do studio and independent films.
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Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.
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I love Rihanna. She represents that strong, independent woman that you cannot keep down.
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I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the future because creators have to make a living too.
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The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.
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I cherished the dream of a country embracing all its people.
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Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.
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All political progress has been the removal of forced and artificial relations among men, and the establishment of natural relations. Democracy is a search for natural leaders and the rights and privileges that belong to man by virtue of his manhood.
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There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?
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To make a low-budget independent is not easy work.
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The CWC is a professional organization for professional writers. Non-published writers are welcome as associate members.
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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
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Unfortunately, so far... a truly background independent formulation of string theory has not been achieved... It is often called the search for M theory...
