Frits Zernike Quotes
About 1930, our laboratory had obtained a large concave grating and set it up in a Runge-Paschen mounting.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
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I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
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I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
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I don't know if I'm a method actor.
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I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat.
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What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema... the form.
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I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'
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No one's just going to hand you a career. I waited for years for someone to hand me one and it never happened.
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Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
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I start my day with a mind, body, soul practice - yoga, Pilates or meditation.
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Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color.
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I'm scared to death of doing it, because I love him (Iggy Pop) so much and I respect the music so much. I don't want to be the person responsible for screwing that up.
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About 1930, our laboratory had obtained a large concave grating and set it up in a Runge-Paschen mounting.
