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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Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered.
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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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A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
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In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away.
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I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.
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It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are.
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It started when I moved into a vegetarian co-op back in the '70s, and that's really when I had my food consciousness awakened. I learned how to cook, and eventually I became the food buyer for the entire co-op. Not long after that, I went to work for a small natural food store in Austin, and I became very excited and passionate about it.
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Perception requires imagination because the data people encounter in their lives are never complete and always equivocal.
