Charles H. Townes (Charles Hard Townes) Quotes
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
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'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.
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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.
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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.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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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.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church".
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I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to lose,Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose.Once there was a darkness, deep and endless night;You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light.
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The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke.
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One thing I wish I'd done differently in my career is insist on having friends or family on tour. I was really young when I travelled the world with Eternal, and I was always homesick.
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When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.
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It's a fantastically specialized universe, but how in the world did it happen?