Bill Foster Quotes
There is an almost universal experience in physicists, at least of my generation, which is home-made pyrotechnics.
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I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because no one - including me - understands my mind creatively. I haven't really been formally introduced to my gift yet. I feel like I'm still on the runway.
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I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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My father had very little formal education.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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In the field of biological weapons, there is almost no prospect of detecting a pathogen until it has been used in an attack.
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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
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I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.
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In Latin America, people want you to write beautiful melodies and words. But there are also songs that do well because they show the reality of life.
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When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in.
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Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.
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And now when we hear that Iran and Iraq plan to cooperate more closely and that a fundamentalist is coming to power in Tehran - a man about whom we cannot be sure that he is absolutely averse to terrorism - it is very worrisome.
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The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.
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The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense.
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I thought it would be a good learning experience for the students to come out and to help give back to the community a little.
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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are as much every U.S. citizen's wars as they are the veterans' wars. If we don't assume that civilians have just as much ownership and the moral responsibilities that we have as a nation when we embark on something like that, then we're in a very bad situation.
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We play some of my stuff and we play some Beatle covers.
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There is an almost universal experience in physicists, at least of my generation, which is home-made pyrotechnics.
