Charles H. Townes (Charles Hard Townes) Quotes
The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in which they live.
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I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.
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I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.
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I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
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I have crooked toes from wearing boots that didn't fit me because that's all I could afford as a kid.
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The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.
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Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
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I'm a loner.
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America is the future. I am committed to the States. I'm guessing this is going to be a permanent move.
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The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in which they live.
