Lee Smolin Quotes
We are the result of processes much more complicated than the small aspects of our lives and societies over which we have some control.
Quotes to Explore
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I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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I'm definitely a Tory. My dad was a Conservative councillor, and I spent years as a child knocking on doors with him. I'm a Tory because I'm passionate about business and enterprise. But I am also a compassionate Conservative. There should always be a net through which no one should fall.
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As far as the UFC, if they offer us a fair deal, then we would be open to fighting in the UFC.
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I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.
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Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
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In terms of script, Bollywood should learn from South Indian scripts. Not talking about the fights and action, I am talking about the drama bit.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
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When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
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All I can do is take influences from where I was raised.
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The focus of 'Flower' is emotion and to make you feel peaceful.
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I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.
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It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
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Short of taking monastic vows or trekking into the Kalahari, a freighter passage might just offer what our relentlessly connected age has made difficult, if not impossible: splendid isolation.
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We are the result of processes much more complicated than the small aspects of our lives and societies over which we have some control.
