Brian Greene Quotes

There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting room on the Harvard campus, where I was an undergraduate.

Brian Greene

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CollegePictureMessyRoomHarvard

I had this DVD that my coach in Cameroon had mailed to me when I first came to America. It was an hour-long tape of Hakeem Olajuwon and some other legendary big men. I probably watched that DVD every single day for three years.

Joel Embiid

DayMenMeAmericaThreeCoach

Why is there this myth? People say, 'Oh, you are a style icon. You're 'French, French, French.' It's not true, you know; there are stylish people everywhere.

Jeanne Damas

StylePeopleStylishYouKnowTrue

Your humble critic confesses that he has been wrestling with 'weight issues' since leaving college lo these, uh, several years ago, so it's hard to be receptive to the moralistic scolding and patronizing encouragement offered endlessly by the allegedly well-meaning.

Tom Shales

HumbleCollegeEncouragementLeaving

Basically, what I do is place a stop, generally 10 to 20 percent below the current price, whenever I buy a stock. The exact level depends on my own analysis of a stock's trading pattern. If a stock violates this stop, I'm out.

Martin Zweig

PlacePriceStopMy OwnAnalysis

When you love someone, you don't try to change them.

Michelle Yeoh

LoveChangeSomeoneYouTryThem

Everyone's constantly scrambling around trying to justify their own cruel behavior, trying to come up with psychological tricks to make themselves not feel bad.

Jon Ronson

BehaviorFeelTryingBadUpOwn

When we look for the origins of all humanity today, let's not just look at Europe, because I think Africa was the cradle, the crucible that created us as Homo sapiens.

Donald Johanson

TodayThinkHumanityLookAfricaUs

I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in and get a higher profile because of that. I like to think that as long as you continue choosing diverse roles, you can avoid becoming predictable.

Christian Bale

WorkLovePeopleThinkLongYou

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

Chuck Palahniuk

TravelStoryShortEasyYouAlways

When somebody wants to interview me, I've always got something to say.

Pete Rose

MeSayAlwaysInterviewSomething

I worry about growing income inequality. But I worry even more that the discussion is too narrowly focused. I worry that our outrage at the top 1 percent is distracting us from the problem that we should really care about: how to create opportunities and ensure a reasonable standard of living for the bottom 20 percent.

Sendhil Mullainathan

OpportunitiesCareWorryProblemTop

It's not that I'm sick of the theater, don't get me wrong. I'm just tired of the commitment.

Richard Griffiths

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