Charles H. Townes (Charles Hard Townes) Quotes
Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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Teams that play together beat those teams with superior players who play more as individuals.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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I thought I would either be an epidemiologist or a 'Price Is Right' model.
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… there are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things…
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Whenever television cameras are interviewing people in their homes, I tend to look over their shoulders and have a good snoop at their living rooms. I am always astonished at how clean they all look, with nothing out of place or unnecessary or dropped down any old how.
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A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.
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Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.
