Leonard Shlain Quotes
While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is the common ground upon which they meet.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.
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When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.
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I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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It's totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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In my dreams, I have Keira Knightley's eyebrows.
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A unjust law, is no law at all.
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...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.
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I am a single mother - that is the reality.
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While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is the common ground upon which they meet.
