Leonard Susskind Quotes
Whether or not evolution is compatible with faith, science and religion represent two extremely different worldviews, which, if they coexist at all, do so most uncomfortably.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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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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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.
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You don't want to have to chase the action. Get yourself in the right place and the action comes to you.
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There's never been a song that I just wrote and tried to send to an artist.
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As long as I do a good job, I believe the future is going to take care of itself, but actually I like very much being in elected office and there is no consideration about doing anything different until I can be assured that we are going to have the best voting systems in the country.
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We want a fireworks theory of evolution. The last two thousand million years are slow evolution: they are the smoke and ashes of bright but very rapid fireworks.
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Whether or not evolution is compatible with faith, science and religion represent two extremely different worldviews, which, if they coexist at all, do so most uncomfortably.
