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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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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People say I look like a vampire. I don't know whether to take that as a compliment or not.
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I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.
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The more opportunities people have to experience television on different platforms, the more television they consume overall. So there actually has been a benefit, but the ratings have gone down. But we've seen kind of the horizontal benefit of this. And it remains a great, great promotion engine.
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Most magic is a trick, an illusion. But [when The Beatles played the Ed Sullivan Show], this was real. Man oh man, was it real.
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Perception requires imagination because the data people encounter in their lives are never complete and always equivocal.
