Leonard Susskind Quotes
Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.
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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'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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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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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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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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Oh yeah, they do that right?
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Being a complete juvenile delinquent helped me grow up a little.
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In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize the species.
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We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that we're creating incomplete human beings.
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Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms and scaring children.
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Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.
