Richard Ernst Quotes

Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.

Richard Ernst

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: swiss
  • Birth: August 14, 1933

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I think literary theory satisfied a deep love I have for big, encompassing narratives about the world and how it works - which are usually, in the end, more creative visions unto themselves than illuminating explanations.

Jennifer Egan

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Acting is a very important thing for me, and I love doing it. But when I'm acting, I spend 14 hours a day and months a time being someone else. When I'm singing, I just get to be me.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

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Art is a liaison between some sort of deranged mentality and others who are not going through it.

John Chamberlain

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I guess I'm sort of spoiled because, most of the things that I get to do, people know that you're a good improviser, so they allow you at least one improv take, and for comedy, that's great.

Matt Walsh

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For me and my wife, it was love at first sight.

Jeff Bridges

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It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things that give you the most clear picture of what it's all about.

Steve Forbert

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You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: 'Played it Safe.'

Rosario Dawson

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We look to our pastors and priests and rabbis and counselors of all kinds to testify of the enduring principles upon which our society is built: honesty, charity, integrity and family.

Mitt Romney

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The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.

Louis Sullivan

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Selling out isn't selling out anymore. It's getting the brass ring.

Jason Calacanis

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You know, I'm not saying, 'Oh, because I play a good guy on TV, I need to suddenly be villainous in a movie.' I look at it more like: does this role has a kind of urgency for me in terms of, 'Can I not say no to it for whatever reason?'

Josh Radnor

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