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• I’ve always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies.

  Joy Harjo

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  The “trickle-down” theory: The principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.

  William Blum

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  Tags in Theory, Bigger

• ‘The Big Bang Theory’ has completely changed my life.

  Jim Parsons

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  Tags in Theory, Changed

• I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I’ve had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

  Alan Parker

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• I’m very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.

  George Hickenlooper

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• I wanted to make noise, not study theory.

  James Hetfield

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  Tags in Noise, Theory

• I think I’ve always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole ‘shut up and smile’ theory. I haven’t ever swallowed that pill so easily, although I tried.

  Amber Heard

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  We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

  H. L. Mencken

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  Tags in Theory, Smart, Freedom

• There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

  Christopher James Hampton

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• I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn’t go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct.

  Charlie Hunnam

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  Tags in Theory, High School

• The idea of stopping is not unmeaningful to me. I think there might be a time when, in theory at least, you’d say, ‘Well I’ve mostly done what I want to do.’ But how could you ever prevent a few years down the line some germ of an idea getting at you and you’ve got to do it again?

  Graham Swift

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  Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

  G. K. Chesterton

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  Tags in Theory, Affair

• Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

  Stephen Hawking

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  Tags in Theory, Philosophy, Science

• If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.

  Albert Einstein

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  Tags in Theory, Change, Facts, School, Science

• My theory is that balance is key – nothing in excess.

  L'Wren Scott

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• I have this friend who has a theory that lots of towns have energies. And, for instance, certain places in Alabama have bad ones because they were built on reservations or built on cemeteries or something. But Nashville has a really gravitational, magnetic pull.

  Caitlin Rose

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• Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

  Imre Lakatos

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• Indeed, this epistemological theory of the relation between theory and experiment differs sharply from the epistemological theory of naive falsificationism.

  Imre Lakatos

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• If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake.

  Brian Greene

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• A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

  Brian Greene

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