Lee Smolin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
-
From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
-
I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
-
To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.
-
I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
-
The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
-
I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
-
I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
-
My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
-
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
-
There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
-
Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.
-
I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.
-
I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I do not need to dump any of my discomfort onto someone else in the form of judgment.
-
Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.
-
Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.
-
My mom got me into some commercials, and I basically, I guess, just got out of my shell I was in at the time because I can't remember. I've just been blessed ever since.
-
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
-
Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.
-
My journalistic heroes are all the guys like Peter Arnett of Vietnam, and my style in journalism is you got to stand there, and you got to see it with your own eyes.
-
I accept the fact that some things dont go the way you hope.
-
When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed.
-
In the K.H.L., you're even more patient at your position because the rink is so big, you cannot play that way.
-
It is absurd in general relativity to speak of a universe in which nothing happens.
