Lee Smolin Quotes
We seem to have an ingrained idea that if something is valuable, it exists outside of time.
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I am a Buddhist.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
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I am a journalist.
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Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.
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It means something to the fans; it's territorial bragging rights for them.
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Washington - having spent a lot of time there, I grew up there and have spent a lot of time there recently - is largely defined by detailed analytical views and policy choices that are not very good. You know, each policy choice has a winner and a loser, right? Somebody's ox is getting gored.
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Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?
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What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I’ll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors.
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I think most people are interested in our origins; once we understand, it might be easier to become the people we'd like to be. Or, better, become the people we think we already are.
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We seem to have an ingrained idea that if something is valuable, it exists outside of time.
