Leonard Susskind Quotes
I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of teaching.
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I'm not sure he knew what to do with himself!
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.
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We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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Music therapy was so important in the early stages of my recovery because it can help retrain different parts of your brain to form language centers in areas where they weren't before you were injured.
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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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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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Cyclists need to help themselves and should not jump red lights. I would ride in London, but I certainly wouldn't ride like that; you just have to be careful. I can understand going down the outside of traffic, but you should obey the rules of the road because we're all road users.
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In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, 'Great idea, boss!' if you don't believe it - right? - because lives are at stake. And the commanders that I've worked for, they want frank assessments; they want criticism and feedback.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.
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I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.
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People don't know what to do when writing a story with teens that takes place now - they think you have to make a bunch of references to Facebook.
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I'm looking for challenges, and as always, what matters is the script, the character and the director.
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Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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Florida is a great place to set a novel.
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The past year and a half has been really transitional for me, just personally, as well as transitioning into becoming a woman.
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I'm a great believer that scientists should spend as much time as possible explaining, and you do explain in the process of teaching.
