Brian Greene Quotes

In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I'm doing if I'm solely relying on the mathematics for my understanding. I need to have a visual picture in my mind. I'm constantly translating from the math to some intuitive mind's-eye picture.

Brian Greene

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I was very much a latchkey kid. My parents would feel the back of the television to make sure I hadn't been watching it when they were gone, which inevitably I was.

Jim Rash

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The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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I had a great time doing Vegas. It's just that it takes a lot of time.

John Elway

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In live action movies, you just hope that everything works. Because the actor may had a bad morning and doesn't play good, or accidents happen continuously. Many things contradict what you are trying to say. But in cartoons, nothing contradict what you want to say.

John Hench

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I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

Anita Desai

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I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.

John Piper

LoveKnowAlwaysWhoWriterBoth

Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit of it; and the most mindless and crass how-tos can get jumbled in with the modestly useful, the appealingly personal, and the genuinely interesting.

Amy Bloom

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I still stand behind the stuff I did early on, but I was on a record label, and I didn't have a lot of creative control. Another side of that is just being young and having bad taste. There was plenty of that, too.

Solange Knowles

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The young people working for me are ambitious and hard-working. That work ethic has always been a trait of the British.

Simon Cowell

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Without 'The Brady Bunch,' my guess is I would have become an engineer working on new plastics or something.

Mike Lookinland

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I'm asking myself, 'What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?' Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

Michelle Obama

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I was a really involved dad - not because I'm such a wonderful person. I like being a dad.

Michael Keaton

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