Arthur Eddington Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
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Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.
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I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it's in a guy's key; I love singing Elvis Presley.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
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Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
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With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.
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Despite the many difficulties that lie ahead, the elections mark progress towards a transition to a democratic, free and peaceful Iraq.
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I want more movies like 'Straight Outta Compton.' Showing our stories of triumph, we'll make it through, and we'll get to something better.
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The mind of man may be compared to a musical instrument with a certain range of notes, beyond which in both directions we have an infinitude of silence.
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When people ask what I'd like to do next, the answer is usually, 'Something with people in rooms.'
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The mind has an outlook which transcends the natural law by which it functions.
