Bill Foster Quotes
In science, if you stand up and say something you know is not correct, that's career-ending. It used to be that way in politics, but not anymore.
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.
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I've loved dinosaurs since I was teeny tiny.
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I am constantly asked can anyone be hypnotized, and does it really work? Yes, and it does.
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Let us make an arbitrary decision (by a show of hands if necessary) to define the base of every stratigraphical unit in a selected section. This may be called the "Principle of the Golden Spike." Then stratigraphical nomenclature can be forgotten and we can get on with the real work of stratigraphy, which is correlation and interpretation.
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Hollywood is just a bunch of people going around in Learjets to other people asking them if they've got any money? Well, they might have if they didn't spend it all on jets.
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In science, if you stand up and say something you know is not correct, that's career-ending. It used to be that way in politics, but not anymore.
