Leonard Mlodinow Quotes
Perception requires imagination because the data people encounter in their lives are never complete and always equivocal.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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Advertising is the life of trade.
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God's kingdom is launched through Jesus and particularly through his death and resurrection; but, by the Spirit, this kingdom is not an escape from the present world but rather its transformation, already in the present (starting with Jesus' resurrection) and in the ultimate future (the new heaven and earth including our own resurrection).
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It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.
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It seems at times fate knocks on people's door, and they are too afraid to pursue it.
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I think we take for granted police officers and detectives that walk into some pretty heinous situations, and they really have to be very brave. So I love playing a character that's very brave - someone that kind of dives in the fire to figure out what's happened.
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Perception requires imagination because the data people encounter in their lives are never complete and always equivocal.
