Kip Thorne Quotes
Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity. We are several decades away from a definitive understanding, 20 or 30 years, but it could be sooner than that.
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I've been watching 'Walking Dead' with my son, and there is absolutely nothing in there I find shocking, but it's cool, and I like it.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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I love to make a one-pot meal - think stir-fry but in the French Fricassee. I start with what takes the longest to roast and then add vegetables, fresh herbs, and starch until the meal is complete in one shot.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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I don't have contempt for Tiger Woods.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.
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There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
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I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
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Sometimes I wish I was more comfortable just saying what I thought and getting my point across.
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Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
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That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you.
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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
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I am a wire-walker. I can walk any time, anywhere - I'm indestructible.
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I met my grandfather just before he died, and it was the first time that I had seen Dad with a relative of his. It was interesting to see my own father as a son and the body language and alteration in attitude that comes with that, and it sort of changed our relationship for the better.
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A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.
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Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity. We are several decades away from a definitive understanding, 20 or 30 years, but it could be sooner than that.
