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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Anonymity breeds meanness.
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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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If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
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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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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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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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I was attracted to 'Half of a Yellow Sun' because of the story.
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'White Rabbit' was mostly done in about two days, the music in about half an hour. The music is a 'Bolero' rip-off and the lyrics a rearrangement of 'Alice in Wonderland.' You take two spectacular hits and throw them together, and it's hard to miss.
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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
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In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.
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There is an almost universal experience in physicists, at least of my generation, which is home-made pyrotechnics.
