Frank Tipler Quotes

Human uploads have such a natural advantage over present-day people in the environment of space, it's exceedingly unlikely flesh-and-blood beings will ever engage in interstellar travel.

Frank Tipler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: physicist
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: February 1, 1947

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TravelSpacePeopleEnvironmentWill

It's not that I think weddings - or marriages - are letdowns. It's just that I want to see my wedding as one awesome achievement on a continuum of achievements, all of which were, in their way, just as beautiful and profound for having led me to the current one.

Jessi Klein

BeautifulAchievementMeThinkWant

He asked why and I said, 'Because Gwyneth has a fat suit, my wife has a fat suit - I don't get a fat suit?' He looked at me and said, 'You mean you don't have one on?'

Joe Viterelli

WifeMeFatYouSaidWhy

It kind of cracks me up when people say I'm hot because I just think that that's a term that I don't have to deal with anymore.

Andie MacDowell

PeopleMeThinkSayKindHot

I was never lined up outside of my bosses office saying 'Give me an opportunity; there's not a woman in primetime'... I was just trying to be so good they couldn't ignore me.

Megyn Kelly

GoodOpportunityWomanMeSaying

I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.

Michael Caine

FamilyPoorHardSoldierComeSlums

I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps.

Mia Kirshner

LearningDanceI AmDumbStepsAm

Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping.

John Steinbeck

HairFeetShipNeckWhistleFour

I do think, with any beat, it helps to establish a basic level of comfort and cordiality, especially if you plan to ask uncomfortable questions. Sitting down in person for a meal or a coffee can help that.

Amy Chozick

CoffeeThinkQuestionsHelpPlan

I try to write every day, preferably first thing in the morning. Of course, there are days when something happens to interfere with this ideal schedule. Then I try to find time later in the day. I usually work at home, but sometimes, for a change I'll go to a library or a cafe. And I like to read poetry before I sit down to write.

Sigrid Nunez

WorkChangeHomeMorningTimeDay

I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

Rod Stewart

BusinessTimeYouCareerDownWant

I'd love to be charming and softly spoken, but that's never going to happen.

Louise Wilson

LoveNeverHappenCharmingGoing

I don't tend to offer up a critique unless I have a clearly formulated alternative, because there's nothing worse than people on a set or any kind of artistic life who critique something but who don't have anything to offer.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

LifePeopleKindNothingAnything

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