Frits Zernike Quotes
Phase contrast was not discovered while working with a microscope, but in a different part of optics.
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I went to Briar Cliff College initially, and then I transferred to Georgetown University, because I was a Russian major, and I was one of two girls accepted that year. This was September 1969 - well, that would have been 1970 - into the School Of Languages And Linguistics in Georgetown.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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We care about margins.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings - those guys won - guys in the locker room gravitate towards those guys. Those guys have been there, so there's a lot that they can teach the guys.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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I dream about doing a film about once a week.
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I think the reason I love 'Antiques Roadshow' is that it is sort of like the lottery. There's the chance a regular Joe could walk in with anything and come out close to a millionaire. There's the thrill of the find.
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Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.
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When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
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There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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Which is the healthier kind of literary diversity: an un-gate-kept self-published book world, run substantially through Amazon? Or our current book world, which is part-gate-kept, part-not, with many different publishers and retailers and platforms? I'm not smart enough to figure it out, but if I had to guess I'd guess the latter.
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Economic gains on their own, without a vision for society to accompany them, will result in a squandered prosperity that will ultimately be unsustainable.
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There's always something that needs attention when you own a property.
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People who start habitually exercising tend on average to eat better. They also tend to use their credit cards less and procrastinate less.
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My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.
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Phase contrast was not discovered while working with a microscope, but in a different part of optics.
