Leonard Susskind Quotes
Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.
Quotes to Explore
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You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.
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There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.
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I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.
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Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there's not a right or wrong way. It's so hard because it's so out of your hands. I have no idea what's going to happen!
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I've found just the right amount of balance in my life. I'm this pop artist in America, but I'm also Malaysian. And I'm also Muslim.
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Economists are generally negligent of their heroes.
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If you don't feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home and change.
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When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice.
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Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.
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Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!
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Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.
