Chen-Ning Yang Quotes
The application of group theory to physics became one of the main branches of physics that I specialized in.
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My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.
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When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.
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To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
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Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
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I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.
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You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
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My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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The Democrats' drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme Court - a war that began with a conspiracy against Richard Nixon by Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justice Abe Fortas and Lyndon Johnson.
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I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic.
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People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.
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Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
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There is nothing settled about a poet's identity. The becoming doesn't stop because the being has been achieved. They proceed together, attached in ways that are hard to be exact about.
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Hillbillies learn from an early age to deal with uncomfortable truths by avoiding them or by pretending better truths exist. This tendency might make for psychological resilience, but it also makes it hard for Appalachians to look at themselves honestly.
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Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway.
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I'm a little goofy sometimes; I can get a little wacky.
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Half of democracy is about just showing up.
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There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.
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Bill Bennett really became an idol for me. I listened to him every morning from 6 to 9 for, oh, years.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.
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Some of us have spent our whole lives committing suicide. And some of us survived.
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I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics can neither compass nor share.
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The application of group theory to physics became one of the main branches of physics that I specialized in.
