Alan Lightman Quotes
I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.
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If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.
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In his enigmatic and cunning story 'The Crown of Feathers,' Isaac Bashevis Singer refuses to produce uncontradictory evidence of God's will but rather mixes all signals, jams the evidence, stalls every conclusion.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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I go to wherever God calls me, wherever the church calls me to come to minister and preach the word of God.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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People who do not have funny in them are not funny when they read funny lines. Sorry. Just doesn't work that way. Seriously, this is the biggest rule of all. You live and die with your casting decisions. Your actors are the heart and soul of the whole thing. Without brilliant actors, you will not have a brilliant film.
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Windmills installed around the world converting their direct current into alternating current and feeding the electric energy into the world network can harvest the planet Earth's prime daily energy income source-the wind--and adequately supply all the world's energy needs
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It's never bad to be liked, and who doesn't feel good being liked, but that can't be your end game goal.
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It's the rejection that is hard. It's not the interviewing that's hard. It's not the photography that's hard. It's, you know, approaching people all day long and having a good portion of those people reject you and some of them be rude.
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I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.
