Mark Oliphant Quotes
Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.
Quotes to Explore
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I think magazines and interviews make celebrities into this bigger-than-life thing, but I've gotten bullied over trying different things with my makeup.
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In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.
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I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
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Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.
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I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
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Where there is love there is life.
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I find too often in the wrestling business, you just wrestle, get to the hotel, make your money. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself to enjoy my life and not just rush through.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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My mother taught me that to maximize your philanthropic potential, you need to constantly challenge your capabilities and put yourself in situations that are not always comfortable. Through her example, I discovered that there is no more beautiful way to live a life than to live a life of service.
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I just have a lot of respect for Terry and his family. He played without a mask, and his life was tragically ended. And it just means a lot to me to be up there with him and the other greats that have played that long.
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The death of the forest is the end of our life.
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
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A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.
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My mother was very, very beautiful, and I saw that the beautiful women around me were often constrained not only by their beauty but by the way that being an object of male desire frequently caused violence in their lives. And it caused them to be constrained in these terribly sad ways - their brilliance was not valued.
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Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.
