Arthur Eddington Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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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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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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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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There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
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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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In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on envy, resentment and ultimately on a vicious urge to lash out against others for the pain of ones own insignificance. That has been a common thread in things as disparate as ghetto riots, two world wars, and now Islamic terrorism.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.
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God goes with me everywhere, because God is in my mind.
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If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.
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The mind has an outlook which transcends the natural law by which it functions.
