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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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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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 went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.
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I think giving yourself permission to be weird is amazing. After all what does it mean to be normal?
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I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I believe in two eyes for an eye.
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I'm not concerned with noise because I'm playing the long game.
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
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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.
