Antony Garrett Lisi Quotes
I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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Discipline is not a nasty word.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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I'll let the people decide what they think is good taste.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
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I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
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Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.
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It's no secret that I wear a kippa.
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New York, to me, even though I grew up here, there's something magical about it. I remember, every time I used to go to L.A. for work, when I'd come back and get off the plane and be driving towards the landscape of the city, I'd be beside myself with joy. It doesn't matter how many times!
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Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
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My 20s was a time for self-exploration and, okay, a little self-indulgence.
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I can only listen to what I'm working on, at the time. I can't listen to anything else because I don't want to copy it.
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I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.
