Charles H. Townes (Charles Hard Townes) Quotes
Science has faith. We make postulates. We can't prove those postulates, but we have faith in them.

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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.
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I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I was watching the Danish version of 'The Killing' when I got the audition for 'The Fall,' and I loved it; it was so original. I approached 'The Fall' with that in mind. I'd no problem with the violence - it was very clear from the script how horrifying the crimes were and that had to be shown, without going to extremes.
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When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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The mentality we have in India is not very sporting.
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We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.
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After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.
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Laws with broad definitions of rape are like laws making 55 mile per hour speed limits for men and no speed limits for women.
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Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
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All hearts confess the saints elect,Who, twain in faith, in love agree,And melt not in an acid sectThe Christian pearl of charity!
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If you don't want to have gay weddings in Mormon churches, that's fine. That's absolutely up to the members of the faith or the leadership of the faith. I would never suggest that the Mormon Church has to consecrate gay unions. But homosexuality runs at a fairly constant rate through all populations. There are many gay Mormons.
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All the things that are negative in me as a person - the incompetence and despair and weakness and pain - are like a gift from God in a performer. If you don't hide them and if you stop lying to yourself about what you are and are not, there is a ring or a tent or a stage where you can take them and use them to make something beautiful.
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Science has faith. We make postulates. We can't prove those postulates, but we have faith in them.