Barun Sobti Quotes
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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
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When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
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Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.
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I want to direct every now and then, but I don't want to be a director.
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It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.
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I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that I had a fascination with things coming out of people's mouths.
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I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more about the intellectual moment to share with the people you dine with than trying to figure out what the chef did with that little piece of salmon or lobster and all that.
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You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life.
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I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.
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I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
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I'm a huge baseball fan and follow it very closely.
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The situation at Buffalo was a rough situation, and I appreciate the opportunity, but going back to Seattle was a better situation, even though I'm not the starter. I've got a chance to get back with some familiar faces, back at a place I'm familiar with.
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Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.
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The people in my district don't call me 'congressman' - doesn't matter how old they are, they call me 'Jack.' They see me at the grocery store, at soccer games.
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It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.
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I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.
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I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a musician of any kind of caliber, your holy grail was to be in that orchestra. It was that claim to fame of the school, of the town, other than the university. But it was better than the university band.
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We don't need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.
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I honestly don't think I sought fame. It wasn't something I courted or wanted, particularly.
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You have to be responsible for the energy you're putting out into the world.
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How much is an hour of your time worth? It's worth whatever wage you would get if you spent that hour working. If you work for an hourly rate, this is an easy calculation. Even if you work for a salary and a fixed number of hours, the principle is the same: It's whatever your salary works out to per hour.
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And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.
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I am a freelance artiste.
