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Light Quotes
"Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman."
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"They were keen for me still to play the piano, which I was going to, but 45 minutes of piano would be extremely boring. I like a bit of light and shade."
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"I always wanted to get married with just candles! I think candlelight is the most beautiful light there is and there's something very spiritual about it."
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"So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light."
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"An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence."
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"When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done."
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"By lighting another's candle you brighten your own."
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"Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too, was determined quantitatively by the same property of the acids, as was of course to be expected from the previous results."
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"I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn't always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise."
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"If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light."
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"I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer."
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"I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber."
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"I left Guiding Light so many times, they ran out of champagne."
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"The three years following the release of See The Light were a whirlwind."
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"Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl."
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"If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?"
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"There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures."
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"Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself."
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"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind."
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"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."
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"It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light."
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"It is very possible that the majority of a nation can choose darkness! Such fool nations learn the beauty of light through the unbearable and inconceivable pains!"
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"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."
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"Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated."
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"When we were making Speaking in Tongues and Remain in Light, we were jamming. From that we were taking the best bits and then recording and improvising on top of those."
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"Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement."
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"An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?"
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"I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't matter how much they're cleaned, they still reflect light."
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"We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice."
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"Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light."
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"Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894."
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"Sometimes it seems that light can transform anything! That it is an undeniable and irreducible metaphor for grace. But do the people of the ranchitos know this? Is it for beauty that they do it? Or do they merely want a comfortable illumination in their little shacks?It doesn't matter.We can't stop ourselves from making beauty. We can't stop the world."
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