Conrad Wolfram Quotes
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In India, it is difficult for a cricketer to show that he is under some kind of stress. Here, you can only retire when you don't want to play anymore, or the motivation is lacking.
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You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.
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I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.
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My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine.
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I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
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The one thing we know about the future is that it will not be like today. I don't think that people should be too anxious about not knowing what they are going to do in the future, because we really can't know.
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With my dad coming from a theatre tradition, there was a lot of preparation before auditions. Not just in terms of saying the lines correctly but a process of entering into what it was all about.
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I'm not somebody who's emotionally attached to an outcome of a character that I'm hired to play. The fans are.
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There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
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I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.
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A final argument for broad freedom of expression is its effect on the character of individuals in a society. Citizens in a free society must have courage — the courage to hear not only unwelcome political speech but novel and shocking ideas in science and the arts.
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It is fear that drives the hippies to seek the warmth, the protection, the safety of a herd. When they speak of merging themselves into a 'greater whole,' it is their fear that they hope to drown in the undemanding waves of unfastidious human bodies - and what they hope to fish out of that pool is the momentary illusion of an unearned personal significance.
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Start with a shovel, wind up with a spoon
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Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.
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I take yoga classes, do a mile run, and of course take part in some kind of water sport.
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It's hard to sell merchandise off YouTube.
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The Martian atmosphere is very thin. It's like our atmosphere at 100,000 feet.
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Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
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When people want transportation, they want it now.
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Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical.
