Charles H. Townes (Charles Hard Townes) Quotes
We can't avoid age. However, we can avoid some aging. Continue to do things. Be active. Life is fantastic in the way it adjusts to demands; if you use your muscles and mind, they stay there much longer.Charles H. Townes
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I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.
Orson Welles -
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.
Canelo Alvarez -
My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.
Eddie Marsan -
I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
Walter Dean Myers -
I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
Halsey
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
Edmund Husserl -
From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
Francesca Annis -
I'm re-teaming with the producers of 'Twilight,' whom I love and who I have an amazing relationship with.
Taylor Lautner -
When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
Valerie Plame -
Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
Wanda Sykes -
I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
Octavia Spencer
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
Zooey Deschanel -
I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
Adam Baldwin -
The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
Adam McKay -
I'm at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I've given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I'm not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it's kind of corny. But I got the essentials.
Wale -
Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
Dan Brown -
To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.
Vaclav Klaus
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I never thought of myself as a singer, like ever, ever, ever. It's hysterical that I sing.
Kate Micucci -
I eat everything I want on Christmas day. I really don't watch what I eat. It's not like you have Christmas every day!
Adriana Lima -
The way that UCB taught us to improvise, you always start from an inspiration from your life, something that's happened to you or a friend. And then you put a comic game onto it. It always starts from a place of reality, of truth.
Jessica St. Clair -
Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.
Sargent Shriver -
We can't avoid age. However, we can avoid some aging. Continue to do things. Be active. Life is fantastic in the way it adjusts to demands; if you use your muscles and mind, they stay there much longer.
Charles H. Townes