Edward Witten Quotes
Quantum mechanics... developed through some rather messy, complicated processes stimulated by experiment. While it's a very rich and wonderful theory, it doesn't quite have the conceptual foundation of general relativity. Our problem in physics is that everything is based on these two different theories and when we put them together we get nonsense.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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Think and grow rich.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I've been fortunate to be working mostly right out of school. Every year, there was a little something, and it kept the confidence going. It's about confidence and the belief.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
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A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates
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Man, Ben Henderson, Donald Cerrone... these guys are a different level, man.
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The exposure I have had to beautiful materials across the world, from Japan to Italy, enables me to pull design ideas together. This, combined with years of historical research, has created a great fountain of ideas for me.
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My real background was in art studies. At the beginning I was a painter, then I was this graphic designer, then I became an illustrator, then I was a comic artist. But for me it's a different way of expression, a different field of art. They're not separated; everything for me is related.
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Quantum mechanics... developed through some rather messy, complicated processes stimulated by experiment. While it's a very rich and wonderful theory, it doesn't quite have the conceptual foundation of general relativity. Our problem in physics is that everything is based on these two different theories and when we put them together we get nonsense.
