Bertrand Russell Quotes
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little: it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.
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I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to do different characters - not necessarily the leading chick who gets the guy, but the weird, freaky cousin.
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There are certain things that I do - I don't eat chicken or pork. I stay away from red meat a lot; I eat fish most of the time. I think it makes me feel cleaner, not just body wise. I feel good.
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I have gotten used to working in the dark and I dig it.
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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We found out that, contrary to what many people thought, in the immune system, genes can change during the life cycle of the individual.
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Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science.
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I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.
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Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little: it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.
