Kip Thorne Quotes
'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.

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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
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I think people are going to like my new shoes. I like them. I had a lot of success with the one last year, but this year's shoe is going to be a little different, but at the same time it's going to be a little spin-off on last year's shoe.
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I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.
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My favorite book is 'Go Away Big Green Monster.' I wrote it for my granddaughter Adrian, who was in the third grade at the time.
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Classic cable TV may have hit its peak, but it's still a huge force, and the streaming apps of many cable networks still require you to authenticate that you're a paying cable customer every time you want to use a new such TV app.
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It took 23 years from Abraxane being conceived to us showing now with conclusiveness that it works in pancreatic cancer. We cannot afford as a society to wait another 23 years to make sure that the patients get the right care, at the right time, at the right place.
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Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.
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In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.
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I spend a lot of time talking to women interested in office about how they can make it work.
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Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.
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But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.
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I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort.
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I think a first-time director always has to convince a lot of people that they're ready to do it.
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The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
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My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me; that is it.
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The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
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I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons... Actors have no inhibitions, and I'm inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience.
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Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
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There are a lot of distractions when you're in creative industries like publishing or fashion or media, and it's a real blessing to have witnessed some of those up close at a young age. I think when you get past the glamour, that's when you get to the good stuff - the stuff that really feeds your soul and enriches you as a person.
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I don't consider myself an expert in the why. I don't consider myself an expert in leadership. I consider myself a student of leadership and I consider myself a student of the why. I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly looking for opportunities where it it will fail.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I have sun damage that I want to repair, but I also want to keep myself from further damage.
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'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.