Alan Lightman Quotes

Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it's a good starting place for me.

Alan Lightman

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The rise of the social web promised a new era of personalization for globe-trotting. But like many things born online, as popularity of the new tools increased, efficiency and usefulness began to decrease.

Jenna Wortham

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Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.

John Clute

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The best songs/films/collections expose truths about life and make them universally accessible; they progress humanity.

Andreja Pejic

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If somebody says, 'Well, what are your favorite composers?' really, what they are saying is, 'What are your favorite composers apart from Bach?' Because obviously, Bach is your favorite composer if you are involved in music at all.

Max Richter

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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Maya Angelou

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The issue I highlight in the book is welfare reform.

Robert Scheer

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Some directors are interested in acting, and others are only interested in cranes and moving the camera.

Stellan Skarsgard

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I had such a hard time finding great organic and non-toxic items for my daughter.

Soleil Moon Frye

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Jerry Bruckheimer creates comedy, he just doesn't realize because he's a turd.

Trey Parker

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I thought art was a sort of romantic life, or I don't know what I thought art was like. But I learned practically everything I know from Ohio State. And I'm really glad I went.

Roy Lichtenstein

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The United States wanted to send its trained rebel groups to Syria to fight ISIS. Out of twenty-five hundred rebels they had trained, only seventy accepted to go to Syria to fight ISIS. Everybody else wanted to go to Syria to fight the government. So you've got to wake up and smell the coffee... The rebel groups have not fired a shot against ISIS.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

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There's a lot of actors that I admire because they can just switch one second into the character. Then, they go back to jokes, and then they're doing something really dramatic. I can't do that. I have to really focus.

Juan Pablo Di Pace

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