"I'd rather have half of my idea change the world than my whole idea be a few papers in a journal."

-- Rodney Brooks

#Ideas Quotes #Half Quotes #World Quotes

“If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new.”
“Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists on behaving like television. . . .”
“Football is my love. Football is what I'm going to do. I'm a football player first.”
“My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it.”
“Government, in the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government.”

Source : "The message of the carillon: and other addresses". Book by William Lyon Mackenzie King, 1927.
“Partial examination will result in partial views of truth, which are necessarily imperfect; only careful comparisons will show the complete mind of God.”

Source : Arthur Tappan Pierson (1910). “Knowing the Scriptures: Rules and Methods of Bible Study”
“Renewable biofuels are meanwhile making inroads in the transportation fuels market and are beginning to have a measurable impact on demand for petroleum fuels, contributing to a decline in oil consumption in the United States in particular starting in 2006... The 93 billion liters of biofuels produced worldwide in 2009 displaced the equivalent of an estimated 68 billion liters of gasoline, equal to about 5 percent of world gasoline production.”
“Actors like to play bad guys because they're more fun. They also win more awards.”

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

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