Arthur Eddington Quotes
It is an astonishing feat of deciphering that we should have been able to infer an orderly scheme of natural knowledge from such indirect communication.
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.
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I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
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As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
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Before going on 'X Factor' again, I felt like I'd tried everything else.
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The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.
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What you wish to others, God wishes to you.
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If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue.
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Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.
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The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur.
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People are used to cash, and getting them out of that is going to be a long and tough exercise.
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The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds and through commendable and seemly conduct.
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It is an astonishing feat of deciphering that we should have been able to infer an orderly scheme of natural knowledge from such indirect communication.
