Lee Smolin Quotes
We seem to have an ingrained idea that if something is valuable, it exists outside of time.
Quotes to Explore
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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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In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.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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Do I sometimes wish I were thinner? God, in the old days, absolutely I did, but now I feel that to lose weight would be disloyal to myself.
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'Star Wars' is a galaxy a long time ago, far, far away. 'Star Wars' is not about our future.
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Male mastery in marriage is a social illusion, nurtured by women exhorting their creations to play and walk. At the emotional heart of every marriage is a pietà of mother and son.
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Drama is about conflict, and it's about putting obstacles in the path of people you who care about.
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I can think of no other experience quite like that of being 20 or so pages into a book and realizing that this is the real thing: a book that is going to offer the delicious promise of a riveting story, arresting language and characters that will haunt me for days.
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We seem to have an ingrained idea that if something is valuable, it exists outside of time.
