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 like the encouragement I get from doing new things. I like to feel scared or challenged in the hope that I can pull it off. That little bit of fear creates an energy that I can channel into the performance.
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People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
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Fridays after school, especially when the weather was lousy, Mom would take me to the library. She'd let me check out whatever I wanted, and I checked out a lot.
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Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.
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If a weaker baboon be attacked by a stronger baboon the weaker baboon will either (a) present his hrump fanny I believe is the word, gentlemen, heh heh for passive intercourse or (b) if he is a different type baboon more extrovert and well-adjusted, lead an attack on an even weaker baboon if he can find one.
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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.
