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Stephen Hawking Quotes

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

Stephen Hawking

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: physicist
Nationality: english
Birth: January 8, 1942 - March 14, 2018

Topics

Privacy Want Become Write Property

The truth is, we have this idea that late night is about creativity and being cool, but that's not our job. Our job is to get as many people watching the commercials in between our show. That's the reality of it.

Truth Creativity Job People Cool

When I get a script that has the opportunity to create discussion and inspire young girls, I don't want to say no to that... I just want to contribute.

Jessica Chastain

Opportunity Inspire Create Young Say

The cure until the late 1940s, when there was an antibiotic discovered for tuberculosis, was basically rest. It was fresh, cold air, lots of food - five meals a day, lots of sleep, not very much talking, and for some people, complete stillness.

Food Day Sleep People Cold Rest

One of my favorite activities when I was a teenager was going riding on the back of a horse with a friend of mine. Because we were rather high up, I could see into peoples' lighted windows as we trotted past. Questions would rise up inside: Who lives there? Are they happy? What are they doing? Any dogs or cats in sight?

Friend Cats Past Happy Horse Doing

Nothing is funnier than a true story told by a bitter old black man.

Man Story Black True Nothing Old

In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.

Work Me Photography Phone Phone Call

When a show becomes a mega hit internationally, you lose a lot of privacy, you become a hider. It's not a human condition we are exposed to very often.

You Lose Privacy Become Human Show

It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me.

Steven Spielberg

Perspective Job Me Exercise Movies

I don't like hobbies. I read and travel and see my friends before they disown me.

Travel Me Friends Hobbies See Like

When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies.

Women Beginning War People Believe

If you force yourself to smile, within a couple minutes, you feel happy.

Smile Yourself Happy Feel You Force

I loved plays, I loved films, but I had no desire to act until I had just put out my album 'Like Water for Chocolate.' Creatively, I felt like I'd hit a ceiling, and I needed something else to express myself, and I just decided to take acting classes.

Water Myself Loved Chocolate Acting

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