Roger Penrose Quotes

People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.

Roger Penrose

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PeopleLittle ThingsThinkMoments

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.

John Barth

ValuePeopleNothingOutsideThing

Tape is wonderful at preserving evidence - fingerprints, hairs, fibers. Tape preserves this, especially on the sticky side, even if the body's been out there for a year.

Michael Baden

YearBodyEvidenceOutSideBeen

If one sibling does something, the other will fill the opposite role. I found, at least for my brother and I in real life, that seems to be a thing.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

LifeBrotherSiblingWillRealRole

If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.

Sonia Sotomayor

GoodLiveSchoolYouPoorKids

Our first priority is to cut taxes.

Steve Mnuchin

FirstTaxesCutOurPriority

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.

Tom Hooper

LifeMy LifeClarityFilmmakerWould

I am ugly, but what I do have is charm.

Ronaldinho

I AmUglyCharmAm

For some of my young female readers, it will be the first time they will have seen a Punjabi author be successful in the West. Because I'm dealing with topics that aren't always easily discussed, I know they will look up to me, because I would have done the same. So I just want to make sure I do right by them, wherever this takes me.

Rupi Kaur

TimeMeLookKnowDoneYoung

I used to submit to anthologies and magazines when I was a student - but I knew I was never going to be picked up.

Rupi Kaur

StudentNeverUpUsedGoingKnew

I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object.

Martin Puryear

SpiritMoreWholeMakeThanObject

A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.

Lucy Larcom

FriendshipFriendImpossibleLoseUs

The thing is, is to raise your hand. It's not to hide, and it's not to try and pretend or do anything like that. You raise your hand, that's the best thing about it.

Liza Minnelli

BestYouHideHandTryAnything

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