Might Quotes - Page 15

• It's better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you'll be too afraid to let things keep happening. Psychology destroys the mystery, this kind of magic quality. It can be reduced to certain neuroses or certain things, and since it is now named and defined, it's lost its mystery and the potential for a vast, infinite experience.

  David Lynch

  Mean, Psychology, Magic

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One can imagine that God created the universe at literally any time in the past. On the other hand, if the universe is expanding, there may be physical reasons why there had to be a beginning. One could imagine that God created the universe at the instant of the big bang, or even afterwards in just such a way as to make it look as though there had been a big bang, but it would be meaningless to suppose that it was created before the big bang. An expanding universe does not preclude a creator, but it does place limits on when he might have carried out his job!

  Stephen Hawking

  Jobs, Past, Expanding Universe

  "A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes". Book by Stephen Hawking, 1988.

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• One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From the viewpoint of positivist philosophy, however, one cannot determine what is real. All one can do is find which mathematical models describe the universe we live in. It turns out that a mathematical model involving imaginary time predicts not only effects we have already observed but also effects we have not been able to measure yet nevertheless believe in for other reasons. So what is real and what is imaginary? Is the distinction just in our minds?

  Stephen Hawking

  Philosophy, Real, Believe

  "The Universe in a Nutshell". Book by Stephen Hawking, 2001.

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• Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker. Although the universe doesn’t have an end, it had a beginning in the Big Bang. One might ask what is before that but the answer is that there is nowhere before the Big Bang just as there is nowhere south of the South Pole.

  Stephen Hawking

  Forever, Answers, Bangs

  "Audio: Stephen Hawking’s Best Quotes" by Adam Mann, www.wired.com. January 8, 2012.

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• The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.

  Stephen Hawking

  Real, Work Out, Challenges

  "Don’t Talk to Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking", www.foxnews.com. April 25, 2010.

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• I do think I might scare some guys, because I'm like, 'I want to change the world! I have dreams! What do you want to do?' But I only know how to be me.

  Selena Gomez

  Dream, Thinking, Guy

  "Justin Bieber Arrested For Drunk Drag Racing While Ex Selena Gomez Talks About Moving On", www.foxnews.com. January 23, 2014.

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• It’s also true that I might have never made Taxi Driver [1976] were it not for the success of Alice [Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, 1974]. The question of commercialism is a source of worry. Must one make a choice, must it be a matter of either setting your sights on winning an Academy Award and becoming a millionaire, or making only the movies you want to make and starving to death?

  Martin Scorsese

  Winning, Sight, Awards

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• My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

  "Sammy Davis Jr". The Oral Cancer Foundation, February 6, 2008.

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• Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Latin, Believe, Mean

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• I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.

  Carrie Fisher

  Believe, Years, Steps

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• We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one

  Billy Joel

  Hurt, Laughing, Loud

  Song: Only the Good Die Young, Album: The Stranger, 1977

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• I have to say I'm all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with are the juvenile delinquents, a lot of whom consider it a badge of honor to be sent to juvenile detention. And it might not be such a cool thing in the 'hood to be flogged publicly.

  Ann Coulter

  Honor, Criminals, Type

  "The Conservative Pin-Up Girl". www.washingtonpost.com. April 19, 2005.

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• Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said any assumption that the US would not use force against North Korea would be a mistake. Such bellicosity frightens liberals. The left's reaction to nutty despots is: he might hit me, so I'll be nice. Rumsfeld's idea is: He'll hit me? Maybe I'll hit him. The beauty of that approach cannot be denied.

  Ann Coulter

  Mistake, Nice, Korea

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism”, p.304, Crown Forum

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• I might be too strung out on compliments, overdosed on confidence/ Started not to give a f- and stop fearing the consequence/ Drinking every night because we drink to my accomplishments.

  Drake

  Drinking, Night, Giving

  "Song: "Headlines" ("Take Care")". August 9, 2011.

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• In school tests, there's only one answer for each question, and you might get zero or half points if you're wrong. But in the real world, things aren't so black and white, so think about things on your own and express them in words or pictures. That's how you communicate with people. That's so important.

  Hideaki Anno

  Zero, Real, School

  "Buried Treasure". www.animenewsnetwork.com. May 3, 2007.

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• Sarah Palin said perhaps the most irresponsible thing I've ever heard any politician say. She said, 'The only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.' You think she realizes that nuking Russia might not be good for someone who can see Russia from her house?

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, Russia, House

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• This is a call to action—not an action that will make things better in six months’ time or a year’s time, but action that might save someone’s life and someone’s future this afternoon, tonight, tomorrow morning.

  Patrick Stewart

  Morning, Years, Six Months

  "Sir Patrick Stewart calls on ’1 million men’ to end to violence against women". www.yahoo.com. March 9, 2013.

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• An obsession might be a little strong a term, but it has now become one of the most significant aspects of my life, but most importantly of my career, because it has changed the public's perception of who Patrick Stewart is.

  Patrick Stewart

  Strong, Careers, Perception

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• My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

  Wentworth Miller

  Hands, White, Racism

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• My rule is you want someone whos got both feet on the ground. An ideal girlfriend might be someone who works in the business and can understand what youre going through but is not an actor themselves - is willing to run lines with you but when you start acting crazy, they throw up their hands and take you for what you are and be accepting.

  Wentworth Miller

  Running, Girlfriend, Crazy

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• I have enjoyed the success my work has brought me. Some might say I haven't really struggled to be successful. I think it is my perspective that is utopian. My state of mind is positive and peaceful. And I dare to dream.

  Vidya Balan

  Dream, Successful, Thinking

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• I feel fortunate I have this amazing relationship with so many people in America, because I was in their homes at a very private time of day. They probably might have still had their robe on and their slippers and haven't made the beds.

  Joan Lunden

  Home, America, People

  "Deborah Norville Tonight", www.nbcnews.com. May 14, 2004.

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• I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.

  Zosia Mamet

  Writing, Avid, Waiting

  "Stage to Screens: Zosia Mamet, One of the "Girls," Is Now Really Really Starring Off-Broadway". Interview with Christopher Wallenberg, www.playbill.com. February 19, 2013.

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• The only Sundance [2011] film about cults that could actually have life as a cult film, THE WOODS has the greatest comic insight into why our current culture might inspire a search for meaning in the first place.

  Karina Longworth

  Inspire, Culture, Woods

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• To speak only well of Jacques Ranciere is not an easy task, given the positions that the two of us occupy. Perhaps my constant praise might, in fact, be the worst fate that I could have in store for him. Would doing so be precisely the most underhanded way to attack him? If, for example, I were to announce that we are in agreement on a number of important points, how would he take that? Would he rather just as soon change his mind on all those points and leave me behind?

  Jacques Ranciere

  Fate, Agreement, Two

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