"Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought.""

-- Luis Walter Alvarez

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“I should be the reigning champion. I punch a guy 300 times, he punches me a couple and they call him the champion? In what parallel universe does that make you the winner? I am the champion. Iâ€™ve been the champion. Andersonâ€™s ribs have the exact same problem that his hands and his feet have, theyâ€™re attached to a cowardly person.”
“It just doesnt mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends.”
“I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.”
“When I was little, I used to think that the sky at night was a big, black blanket that separated heaven from earth, and the stars were a whole bunch of little pin holes that the angels poked in the blanket so they could look down on us.”
“Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.”
“When I'm making the music, I feel like everything I throw out has to work. It counts. Because if you don't have people turning they neck all the way around to see what it is, it ain't stick on the wall.”
“Me I never had the chance to say,Well,I'm going to do something I want to do."I always did if for my family,for my children, for my father,for my mother."”
“It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.”

Source : "Saturday Night Live: The Best of Steve Martin". www.imdb.com. 1998.

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