Hannes Alfven Quotes
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form.
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.
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I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.
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I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
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I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.
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Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.
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The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.
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You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.
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I really wasn't even aware that Batman and Superman had this kind of grudging friendship.
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You can't take yourself too seriously.
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Spread the sickness, infect the world.
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It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
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I'm an old storyteller. I tell the story. It's about the story.
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The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?
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If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great.
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The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
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I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ...
