Tom Wolfe Quotes

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

Tom Wolfe

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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.

John Burroughs

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I found collaborating with congenial doctors about problems that physicists could help solve was very satisfying. I also like educating anybody who would listen!

John Cameron

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A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Max Planck

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When I was brought up in Sweden, there was a great opportunity for young people to learn how to act in our municipal theaters with their small companies. You would be under contract for eight months and have the summer free to take other opportunities.

Max von Sydow

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Sometimes it feels like the feminist movement never happened.

Maxine Peake

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You have to be awake at 6 a.m., when everyone else is asleep.

Matthew Ashford

YouEveryoneAwakeEveryone Else

The best thing about my marriage are my two kids.

Amrita Singh

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I wasn't going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

Stephen Curry

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Theatre's a much less faddish, more sensible world than TV or film.

Stephen Mangan

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Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

Solomon Asch

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I was in an interdisciplinary major - which was a new thing then - which was psychology, sociology, anthropology, and biology, which is really sort of the study of the human being.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

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Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Tom Stoppard

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