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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.


Richard P. Feynman

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I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
RICHARD FEYNMAN I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
RICHARD FEYNMAN [Richard Feynman] is a second Dirac. Only this time human.
EUGENE WIGNER I think everybody was in there. It was a nice little day to lay out and actually have a little free ...
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TITUSS BURGESS I think things might change a little bit, knowing that you have some security. But now there is pres...
DERRICK TURNBOW I had learned to hide what I felt. No, that's not true. There was no learning involved. I had been b...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.
ERICH SEGAL The way I look at it, at practice I go really hard, and I have only three minutes between training s...
CODY WEIK That was huge. Richard had a little bit of his swagger back tonight.
RICK STANSBURY I thought that nothing enormously bad or good had happened to me during my life. All the normal thin...
MICHAEL ZADOORIAN I had now been in the United States of America something like five years, working here and there as ...
W. H. DAVIES Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are n...
LIONEL SHRIVER I would have killed everyone of them to get to you. I would have done anything to get you back. Know...
MARISSA MEYER I could sense he was a little bit nervous. He had been the starter here for a couple of years. He ca...
DAN MULLEN I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax
RICHARD FEYNMAN It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have...
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS My mum had 14 pregnancies - but only four of us survived. We had a little sister born for a few days...
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BURTON FREDERICKSEN The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been "g...
MARCEL PROUST It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have ...
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN I wasn't enjoying golf much. I was kind of getting a little bit tired, I was getting a little bi...
PAULA CREAMER It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth - and that we h...
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside m...
TONY PARSONS I had a huge crush on Olga Korbut, the gymnast. The only other person was Cliff Richard, which is em...
HUGH GRANT And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to st...
BOB DYLAN It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we h...
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS This time, there was no escape, I could not turn away, could not leave without accepting what I had ...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH So far they haven't been able to see a strong sense of urgency. It's a little here and a little ther...
SHELLY LOMBARD I was born and raised in Zambia in 1969. At the time of my birth, blacks were not issued birth certi...
DAMBISA MOYO I really like Sammy. But it was just time to get a little longer and a little younger at the point. ...
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JOSH WILSON To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.
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GREG STAKE I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON I was born in a blender.
LORNA LUFT I was born 'neath a clouded star.
JULIA WARD HOWE I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.
GEORGETTE MOSBACHER I was born to be funny.
BUDDY HACKETT I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
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ADRIAN PETERSON I don't have much time left here, so I think knowing that I only have a couple months left makes thi...
LIZ VRABEL I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.
ALBERT CAMUS The last few days it?s been Richard Seymour. That was a little different for me the first few times....
LOGAN MANKINS Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER There is this mythology that says that when people are born, their brains are essentially fixed very...
DANIEL TAMMET When I was 6 years old, I had a little fur coat, but that was it. That's the only time I've ever had...
CHRISTINA APPLEGATE We came into the season knowing we had depth there and tonight we saw what it was with the little pr...
BOB MCALLISTER If there is something I can do to make Picher a better place to live I want to do it. I was born and...
BILL LAKE I think something plain and simple and not too busy. If you notice all these quarters here, we have ...
GREG HUNT I'd say that, 99 percent of the time at Nevada, I knew what the coverage was and where I was pro...
COLIN KAEPERNICK I had no idea about his record here. I've only faced him one other time in my life, and that was in ...
MARCUS THAMES I was born at the right time. I was a freak - the only young player when darts took off in the 1970s...
ERIC BRISTOW I don't think I've ever forced a fumble before. I always played offense my whole life -- a little de...
DESMOND CLARK But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this ...
LEMONY SNICKET There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, n...
BUDDHA And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN As far as Randy not being here, personally, he's a close friend of mine and we spent a lot of time t...
DAUNTE CULPEPPER There was a star danced, and under that was I born.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I noticed Laura (the restaurant owner) had a little bucket on the table. For like a week, I was just...
SUZANNE MILLER Obviously, we have to rebound a little better. It was just the little things, and they got a couple ...
ANDRE MORGAN I had no idea that I was ever getting into music. I did not prepare for a music career, and here I&#...
CLIVE DAVIS My older brother was born, who was a cripple, then I was born, and my sister was born, the only girl...
TRACY MORGAN To be honest, I'm excited again to be head coach here at Illinois State. There was a time here when ...
DENVER JOHNSON I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The nov...
OWEN HART I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. ...
PATTI SMITH Rock and roll came into my life when I was about 12, 13, when Little Richard and Chuck Berry had jus...
JOE COCKER I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years.
DAVID GUTERSON I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely cl...
JOE ROGAN I was in Minnesota, where I was born, and I did print ads and commercials. And that was always cool ...
YARA SHAHIDI I was born in August, no July, 1908.
SATCHEL PAIGE I was born in the technology era.
MALUMA I was born with an evil face.
BARRY SLOANE I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.
LINCOLN CHAFEE By ancestry, I was born to rule.
NELSON MANDELA I was born in Homestead, Florida.
CHRISSY METZ I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii.
STEVE CASE I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
JESSE JACKSON I was born into a family of preachers.
DAVID SOUL Leadership is something I was born with.
CARMELO ANTHONY I was born here and I'll die here against my will.
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JOE DEZARN there are countless times i want to give up and just do nothing, but there is one thing that tells m...
BAILEY CHANDRA Change is always good, ... I had been [in the Cubs organization] for 10 years. I have no regrets abo...
KYLE FARNSWORTH The fairway looks like a 'P' now. I have to change my par (and perhaps play for bogey). It's going t...
BEN CRENSHAW I had a very difficult and complex relationship with my father, ... It was only when I was 15 years ...
RAMON MAGSAYSAY Yes, there certainly was pressure, but there was also still a game to be played and we had confidenc...
JOE CROCCO I was born in 1943 at Neston in the Wirral, not far from Liverpool where my father, Richard William ...
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ISABELLA ROSSELLINI If you had asked me growing up what a stylist does or what a magazine editor does, I would have had ...
EVA CHEN He had little respect for anyone who was not willing to put in the effort required to survive and th...
ANNE MALLORY We are all born same, we are completely cute, innocent, sweet, and we need that reflection of oursel...
ANNEKE LUCAS I might take it a little easy in January and February. If I can get a day off here and there, I'm go...
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about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.
RICHARD FEYNMAN – and pompous fools drive me up the wall. Ordinary fools are alright; you can talk to them and try...
RICHARD FEYNMAN What Do You Care What Other People Think?
RICHARD FEYNMAN Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and tha...
RICHARD FEYNMAN All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another wa...
RICHARD FEYNMAN The next question was — what makes planets go around the sun? At the time of Kepler some people an...
RICHARD FEYNMAN So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impo...
RICHARD FEYNMAN Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
RICHARD FEYNMAN A poet once said, 'The whole universe is in a glass of wine.' We will probably never know in what se...
RICHARD FEYNMAN Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it d...
RICHARD FEYNMAN The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
RICHARD FEYNMAN Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing i...
RICHARD FEYNMAN There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they ar...
RICHARD FEYNMAN I was terrible in English. I couldn't stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about w...
RICHARD FEYNMAN Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool fo...
RICHARD FEYNMAN If someone were to propose that the planets go around the sun because all planet matter has a kind o...
RICHARD FEYNMAN All television is children's television.
RICHARD P. ADLER You can only stumble if you are moving.
RICHARD P. CARLTON The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as yo...
RICHARD P. DENNEY A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.
RICHARD P. DENNEY Interestingly, the patients who presented to me self-diagnosed [with Dissociative Identity Disorder ...
RICHARD P. KLUFT The summary of Lambert and Lillenfelt’s “Bloodstains” in Scientific American Mind in the Octob...
RICHARD P. KLUFT It is clear that the Vatican does not know what a theologian is and what a university is.
RICHARD P. MCBRIEN As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government a...
P. SATHASIVAM If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take...
P. CHIDAMBARAM I have maintained that the people of India are ahead of their governments. The people of India are a...
P. CHIDAMBARAM When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union ...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a commi...
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