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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The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen plays.
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It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
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For most of the people who have a lot of success, it's because they were the ones who didn't quit. It's not necessarily because it was just laid out for them. It won't apply to all cases, but I think it's pretty good advice.
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I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed me to enter lives, satisfying a curiosity that was always there but that was never explored before.
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Until writing was invented, we lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, the dark of the mind, the world of emotion, primordial intuition, terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog. (p. 13)
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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.
