Luis Walter Alvarez Quotes
I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
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The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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I need distractions. Good distractions, not bad ones. A good distraction for me is a great play.
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The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.
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I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now they've got some good Mediterranean blood in them.
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And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
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The people who know me do not ask me about the next book or how it's going. They ask, 'Jason, are you sleeping?' because they know my brain will not shut down.
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I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.
