Charles Francis Richter Quotes
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Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
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Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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Sri Lanka is an island off the coast of India. There's two ethnicities there; one the Sinhalese, which is the majority and the government, and the minority, who are the Tamils. That's where I'm from. And my lifetime sort of began there; I spent 10 years, and I was there during when the war started and fled as a refugee to England.
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.
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Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!
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Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
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People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach.
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I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.
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Institutional Buddhism has been conspicuously ready to accept or ignore the inequalities and tyrannies of whatever political system it found itself under. This can be death to Buddhism, because it is death to any meaningful function of compassion.
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The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does not a character address moral being in a universal and important way? If it does, then it's literature.
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I really took filmmaking very seriously... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies.
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No one who writes a good book is really dead.
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I'm glad to see the press now referring to the open-ended Richter scale.
