"I'm not going to be somebody who wants to hold on to my fame for the rest of my life."
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"I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength."
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"There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear."
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"I'm coming up on 30. There are other things that I want to pursue outside of just performing."
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"I want to bring more gymnastics on television."
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"Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all."
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"Nature isn't classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you'd better make it quantum mechanical, and by golly it's a wonderful problem, because it doesn't look so easy."
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"When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his "bias" was in favoring one or another particle as a likely candidate to compromise dark matter in the universe, Feynmann snapped, "Why do you want to know his bias? Form your own bias!""
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"You want the audience to be uncomfortable."
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"People are terrified for their own reputations. They want the press on their side."
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"I just want my children to be happy. I want my children to be healthy."
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"You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues...And you know it don't come easy."
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"They said do what you want, because if we don't like it no one will hear it."
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"If you are truly on the left, if you reject ideas of power and hierarchy, what you want is equality. Otherwise, it won't work at all."
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"Ever since I was little, I've felt very comfortable on a set. The time is stressful - being creative under time constraints. But there is an excitement and energy that you only have a certain amount of time to get what you want."
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"It's become this really odd thing where even some of the folks who build the things that we wear for entertainment are contacted by DARPA-esque companies who are saying, "Yeah, we're really doing that, and we want to talk to you.""
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"The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express."
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"I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre."
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"Surprises are good. I'm not of the thinking where you tell the audience everything. Sometimes I don't even want to see the trailers. You see the trailer, you've seen the movie."
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"Meditation is the language of God. If we want to know what God's Will is in our life, if we want God to guide us, mould us and fulfil Himself in and through us, then meditation is the language that we must use."
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