"The word 'chance' then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed one another in no apparent order. Probability is relative in part to this ignorance, and in part to our knowledge."

-- Pierre-Simon Laplace

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“We live in an age where quantity is seen as preferable to quality, and many people tend to work in a horizontal line: next, next, next. But if you do that, you never investigate the vertical line - the depth of the piece.”
“Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I've liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film. He is still my favourite author, and he is the one - I still think - who writes most honestly about human existence.”
“When challenge and skills are in balance the activity is its own reward”
“I go from locker to locker, pretending the guys are here. You know, give them a little bit of a pep talk. It must be working, because we haven't lost a game yet.”
“As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bit crazily in school and dyed my hair every colour under the sun.”
“Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time”
“Ideals, my girl,â€Â she says. â€œAlways easier to believe in than live.â€ â€œBut if you don't at least try to live them,â€ Bradley says, â€œthen there's no point in living at all.”
“I love acting so much, but listening to music and making music has been the greatest savior for me.”

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