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Alan Lightman Quotes

Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.

Alan Lightman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: physicist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 28, 1948

Topics

Life Music Experience Child My Life

We have built tens of thousands of schools, clinics and rural roads.

Meles Zenawi

Roads Rural Built Clinics Schools

How many millionaires do you know who have become wealthy by investing in savings accounts? I rest my case.

Robert G. Allen

Rest You Know Become Savings Who

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

Stephen Leacock

Believe Now Christmas Spirit First

I think if I met Frank Auerbach or Jeff Koons, I'd be more wobbly than if I met Robert De Niro!

Russell Tovey

Think More Than I Think Met Frank

That song didn't just happen. It grew out of my experiences. 'American Pie' was part of my process of self-awakening: a mystical trip into my past.

Don McLean

Past Song Process American Pie Out

It's a grave mistake in publishing, whether you're talking about Internet or print publication, to try to play to a limited repertoire of established reader interests.

Denis Dutton

Mistake Internet Talking You Play

There's no doubt that what has emerged in the years after 9/11, unlike the situation in Britain, there were practices sanctioned in the U.S. that fall far below the standard of conduct that should have taken place. It is for the American system of government, in all of its branches, to address that. It is not for a British politician.

Douglas Alexander

Government American Doubt Fall Place

Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.

Donald Trump

Start Impossible You Country Done

I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I thought I might follow in the medical footsteps of my parents: my father was a doctor, my mother a pharmacist.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Father Mother Time Medical Parents

I do want to lose weight. But not because anyone is telling me to do it.

Chrissy Metz

Me Lose Want Because Weight Telling

Concealed-carry reciprocity, I believe, undermines American gun laws by forcing states to accept carry-permitting standards of every other state, including some states that have no standards at all.

Brad Schneider

Believe Gun American Accept Laws

For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.

Arthur Machen

Introduction Presence Something Imply