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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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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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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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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There are a lot of teams that don't want to play, that only want to defend against Barcelona, and that makes it difficult. We're always looking for the open space. A lot of times we'll face six defenders and four midfielders.
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For me, the scale of the budget is part of the creative process. 'Swingers' is the movie it is because we made it for exactly the right budget. Had it been made for a higher number, it would not have been as imaginative as we had to make it, given the budget constraints we had.
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You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.
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They want to wipe - in fact, the Democrat Party in their own platform last year wiped even - any reference to God completely from their platform.
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Miscegenation is not an idea that we would have in the Caribbean. It wouldn't come up because anybody could marry anybody, you know. I'm not saying that there aren't prejudices in the Caribbean, but the idea of the word 'miscegenation' is not something that we think of.
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About a year after 'Bosom Buddies,' I was suddenly a regular on 'Newhart,' and I was there almost seven years. And then, somewhere in the mid-1990s, I ended up doing a TV series version of 'Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.'
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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.
