Edward Witten Quotes
It is very possible that a proper understanding of string theory will make the space-time continuum melt away.... String theory is a miracle through and through.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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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 be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
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Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
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My agent called me up and said, 'There is a tremendous female lead in the new 'Star Wars' film, and I think you're really going to like it.' The opportunity to play someone determined, who's trying to find her skills as a leader; to be in a fantasy movie; to be able to do a leading female role in a film of that scale - that's very, very rare.
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I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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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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You can tell he's very comfortable with himself. I don't think he second-guesses things, which a lot of us would when we're going through in a tough situation.
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If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.
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My generation of playwrights have grown up writing for studio theatres, and so the task of writing for more than ten or so actors is a huge challenge. Logistically, it's like doing an enormous Sudoku. Making sure everyone is in the right place at the right time in the right order instantly sends me into a cold sweat.
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Don’t waste your time on sweet formalities. Just show me your originality.
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It is very possible that a proper understanding of string theory will make the space-time continuum melt away.... String theory is a miracle through and through.
