Adam Riess Quotes
Einstein wrestled with a problem back before we even knew the universe was expanding, and he was looking for a way to keep the universe from collapsing. And so he discovered, in his theory of gravity, something like this dark energy - he called it a cosmological constant - could play this role, pushing things away.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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I adore Eddie Kaye Thomas and Jason Biggs. Eddie was the only one who called me when they were doing 'American Reunion' and told me, 'You need to do this.'
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
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As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.
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I can paint in jail.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.
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The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about.
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Acting gives me an adrenalin rush I don't get from anything else.
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I do what I do because it seems to be critically missing in the world and I want to see it not-happen.
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You don't swing where you sleep.
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I know that if I can't move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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I was 18 when I did 'The Amanda Show,' and I was 19 when I did 'MadTV,' and I was in way over my head. I was just sort of a goof who could do impressions of WB stars - speaking of the Dawson Van Der Beek era - and it was overwhelming. I don't think I've learned more faster in my life than when I worked on 'MadTV.'
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I don't want to be knocked out. But the contact and the focus and the energy I get from sparring gives me energy to make movies, energy to be a dad, energy to be a friend, and, you know, makes me feel, probably, a lot younger and behave a lot younger than I am.
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Einstein wrestled with a problem back before we even knew the universe was expanding, and he was looking for a way to keep the universe from collapsing. And so he discovered, in his theory of gravity, something like this dark energy - he called it a cosmological constant - could play this role, pushing things away.
