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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• 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.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
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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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• My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.

  

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• You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.

  

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• I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.

  

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• Science can be effective in the national welfare only as a member of a team, whether the conditions be peace or war. But without scientific progress no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.

  

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• Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.

  

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  • People
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  • Job

• I always try to pick and choose projects that will be impactful to someone. From films like 'Clockers' to playing a doctor on 'ER' to doing '8 Mile,' where I'm in charge of the hip-hop battles, I think it affects all kinds of different audiences. And I just try to keep that in mind, to keep people entertained.

  

  Mekhi Phifer
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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.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Different
  • Science
  • Faith