Hannes Alfven Quotes
Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural... The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
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I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.
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The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough.
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There was a period of time when they estimated the two biggest stars in Hollywood were Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse.
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I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
