Lucy Hawking quotes

“I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline.”
-- Lucy Hawking

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“I wonder whether being a scientists daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.”
-- Lucy Hawking

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“I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was Einstein.”
-- Lucy Hawking

Source : "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today Interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

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“I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.”
-- Lucy Hawking

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“As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them.”
-- Lucy Hawking

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“The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.”

“When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”

“Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.”

“I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May ‘43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in ‘42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn’t have any priority in design or production.”

“Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament.”

“I have two or three shows that I follow, and even those are few and far, when I can see them on Netflix. I don't really watch anything on TV. It's not really a priority for me.”

Source : "Alan Ritchson Exclusive Interview SMALLVILLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 19, 2010.

“When I'm in the U.S. Senate, I will fiercely oppose the president's attack on Kentucky's coal industry, because protecting our jobs will be my No. 1 priority.”

Source : "With carbon limits, Obama creates drama for Democrats" By Leigh Ann Caldwell, www.cnn.com. June 3, 2014.

“The priority must be the unification of the world titles to straighten things out. But we should not wait that long anymore to change the situation, because we are running out of time”

“For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.”

“Life is more important than 'what film I do next.”