Lee Smolin Quotes
There is no time apart from change. There is no such thing as a clock outside the network of changing relationships. ...one can only compare how fast one thing is happening with the rate of some other process.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.
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Angela Merkel puts Germany first.
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Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
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One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.
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One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
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I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.
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He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
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There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data that that's what people want.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
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Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.
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We are discovering what the universe is really like, and it is totally magnificent, and one can only be inspired and awestruck by what we find.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child. She also needs emotional support and protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist.
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The state sometimes makes mistakes. When one of these mistakes occurs, a decline in collective enthusiasm is reflected by a resulting quantitative decrease of the contribution of each individual, each of the elements forming the whole of the masses. Work is so paralysed that insignificant quantities are produced. It is time to make a correction.
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There is no time apart from change. There is no such thing as a clock outside the network of changing relationships. ...one can only compare how fast one thing is happening with the rate of some other process.
