Kenneth G. Wilson Quotes
My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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I love dresses, and I've definitely thought about designing them someday. I just want to make sure that I wait until the time is perfect and I can do it right.
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I'm kind of scatterbrain and all over the place at times.
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Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.
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I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.
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My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green-bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.
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It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.
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My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.
