Leonard Shlain Quotes
When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.
Quotes to Explore
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.
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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
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What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
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I love music.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.
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I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.
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If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.
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There is racism all over the United States. Most Southerners I know, we definitely find ourselves defending our heritage.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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Good health is about being able to fully enjoy the time we do have. It is about being as functional as possible throughout our entire lives and avoiding crippling, painful and lengthy battles with disease. There are many better ways to die, and to live.
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I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.
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I fell from the sky. I'm a parachutist, and I missed my mark.
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Words are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things: we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them apart from and against it, so that we can realize their inadequacies and arbitrariness, and can relook at the world without blinkers.
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When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.
