Charles H. Townes (Charles Hard Townes) Quotes
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
Ed Westwick -
You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
Barry Mann -
Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
Wallace Shawn -
I never got into politics for it to be a career.
J. C. Watts -
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
Jackie Robinson -
All the terrorists are basically migrants.
Viktor Orban
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
Jack Bruce Cream -
I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
Gary Barlow Take That -
'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.
Idina Menzel -
The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
Ma Jian -
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
Hans Kung -
I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.
Salman Rushdie
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
Felix Adler -
Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr. -
My wife was pregnant, and I was doing the math, and I was realizing that I couldn't be living in a two-bedroom apartment in Hollywood for the rest of my days. I didn't want to raise my kid there.
Taylor Sheridan -
I don't pretend that I can imagine myself as a Palestinian.
Yitzhak Rabin -
Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words.
Adam Goldberg -
You must read Plato. But you must hold him at arm's length and say, 'Plato, you have delighted and edified mankind for two thousand years. What have you to say to me?'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The higher your profile, the more people want you.
Peter Capaldi -
White Americans have the option of not having to think about race on a daily basis. People of color don't. Race is a major deciding factor in their lives and the histories of their families.
Jess Row -
Minneapolis has always been a very special place for me.
Mat Kearney -
Where we live in the world is never one place. Our hearts, those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us moons before we are ready for them.
Naomi Shihab Nye -
It's a fantastically specialized universe, but how in the world did it happen?
Charles H. Townes