Lee Smolin Quotes

Neither space nor time has any existence outside the system of evolving relationships that comprises the universe. Physicists refer to this feature of general relativity as background independence.

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• I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Men
  • Women
  • Action

• I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Change
  • Respect
  • Rights

• There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Pretty
  • You

• If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

  

  Hannah More
  • Life
  • God
  • Heart

• I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Good
  • Daily

• It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Nice
  • Again
  • Be Nice

• Predominantly I'm an Adidas guy who walks around in sports gear all the time because there's always a ball right next to me somewhere. I do a lot of sports, but I do enjoy wearing a lot of suits.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Sports

• Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.

  

  Barbara Stanwyck
  • Job
  • Career
  • Always

• I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Think
  • Tree
  • Possible

• If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Remember
  • High
  • Want

• My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Home
  • Reality
  • Sleep

• I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Violence

• Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Time
  • True
  • Positive

• I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Different
  • Character
  • Think

• That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Eyes
  • Moment
  • Blue

• There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Up
  • She
  • Character

• Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Power
  • Innocence
  • Convinced

• Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • May
  • Suffering
  • Deep

• Pick the one thing that you've really been putting off, that seems too big or too scary or too whatever, and do it this week. You might be very pleasantly surprised.

  

  Jen Sincero
  • Scary

• The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.

  

  Jim Dale
  • Joy
  • Boss

• Keeping politics out of the courtroom is a goal every state aspires to achieve.

  

  Amul Thapar

• At the time I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease, my doctors told me that I had an incurable illness and they didn't know much about it.

  

  Mary Ann Mobley
  • Time

• Neither space nor time has any existence outside the system of evolving relationships that comprises the universe. Physicists refer to this feature of general relativity as background independence.

  

  Lee Smolin
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