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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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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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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The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.
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The price pattern reminds you that every movement of importance is but a repetition of similar price movements, that just as soon as you can familiarize yourself with the actions of the past, you will be able to anticipate and act correctly and profitably upon forthcoming movements.
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You change all the time. Everything changes you.
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Conscious experience is at once the most familiar thing in the world and the most mysterious.
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Some of the most productive times in the histories of nations have been when they were badly stressed - economically, politically, culturally or socially. It's possible to be stressed to a point that more creativity is stimulated than would otherwise be the case. I think it is true that necessity is the mother of invention.
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I love cookbooks, and I have a ton. I have shelves of cookbooks.
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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.
