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Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.

Quote by Hank Aaron about season, home, time

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

Quote by Roger Moore about attention

There is nothing glamorous about death.

There is nothing glamorous about death.

Quote by Roger Moore about myth, death, nothing

Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good...

Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.

Quote by Roger Moore about attitude, modesty, ability, good, good luck

You can always do more than you thought you can do.

You can always do more than you thought you can do.

Quote by Roger Martin du Gard about philosophy, thinking

Two of my biggest heroes as songwriters are Roger Miller and Buck Owens. They wrote about the problems we face, but there was always an amusing turn of phrase or a chuckle.

Quote by Brad Paisley about problems, face

And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.

Quote by Roger Penrose about things, thinking, people

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the...

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

Quote by Roger Penrose about moral, morality, question

As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.

Quote by Roger Penrose about opinion

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the...

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

Quote by Roger Penrose about moral, morality, miracle, beauty

Entire lights rays you see if you made space, each of...

Entire lights rays you see if you made space, each of whose points represented an entire light ray, you'd find that space had five dimensions.

Quote by Roger Penrose about univers, light

I certainly don't believe that these things like...

I certainly don't believe that these things like Terminator or something coming from the future who is a mechanical entity.

Quote by Roger Penrose about future, things

I find it amusing and entertaining and I've always been a...

I find it amusing and entertaining and I've always been a fan of science fiction. I used to read it a lot when I was younger.

Quote by Roger Penrose about humor, fiction, science

In fact you may be surprised by this, I was even moved...

In fact you may be surprised by this, I was even moved down a class once because I couldn't do mental arithmetic.

Quote by Roger Penrose

In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't know if either one of them is the right approach to nature.

Quote by Roger Penrose about books, nature, rightness

My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.

Quote by Roger Penrose about hope, problems, thinking, time

Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of...

Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.

Quote by Roger Penrose about nation

People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.

Quote by Roger Penrose about nation, things, people

So I think that the issue of how consciousness relates to...

So I think that the issue of how consciousness relates to the physical world is all tied up with morality but we have a lot to learn on that one.

Quote by Roger Penrose about opinion, morality, world

So what I'm saying is why don't we think about changing Schrodinger's equation at some level when masses become too big at the level that you might have to worry about Einstein's general relativity.

Quote by Roger Penrose about worry

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