Leonard Mlodinow Quotes
The outline of our lives, like the candles flame, is continuously coaxed in new directions by a variety of random events that, along with our responses to them, determine our fate.
Quotes to Explore
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The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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For the vlogging channel, I wanted to build the infrastructure and build up all the personalities in a way that felt like weren't just forcing the audience to watch everyone we have.
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I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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I'm just a purist. What is important in my life is that I can do something that can influence many people and influence China's development. When I am myself, I am relaxed and happy and have a good result.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
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If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
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I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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Love is a kind of warfare.
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The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.
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It doesn't matter how big or small your film is: you still don't have enough money. You don't have enough time to shoot it.
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Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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Socially, I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people.
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The outline of our lives, like the candles flame, is continuously coaxed in new directions by a variety of random events that, along with our responses to them, determine our fate.
