Alan Lightman Quotes
As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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Dumped? Fired? Scorned? Humiliated? Totally pissed off? If so, I've got great news! You might be on your way to living your best life ever - if you consciously choose to channel this pain into fuel - and use it to motivate yourself to become your highest potential self!
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
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In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.
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Sometimes there are some matchups and man-to-mans that you like to match up on.
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Pilates is great.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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In the bubble decade, making money as an end in itself boomed as a calling among students at elite universities like Harvard, siphoning off gifted undergraduates who might otherwise have been scientists, teachers, doctors, entrepreneurs, artists or inventors.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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In a sense the Pirate Party is very similar to what happened for the Bernie Sanders campaign, where people felt inspired and they felt like they were having an impact, a big grass-roots-inspired movement, in particular with young people.
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As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
