Future (Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn) Quotes
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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We're a nation of immigrants.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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The military is a machine of war. Not a law enforcement agency.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
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I will run against anybody.
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Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.
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I have never gone into a picture without first studying my characterization from all angles. I make a study of the fellow's life and try to learn everything about him, including the conditions under which he came into this world, his parentage, his environment, his social status, and the things in which he is interested. Then I attempt to get his mental attitude as much as possible.
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'To hell with the handkerchief,' said Walter Mitty scornfully. He took one last drag on his cigarette and snapped it away. Then, with that faint, fleeting smile playing about his lips, he faced the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful, Walter Mitty the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last.
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And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.
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Quality is everything to me, and I perfect everything I do.
