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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• What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • God
  • Everything
  • Himself

• 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.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Money
  • Think

• I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Always
  • Sense
  • Curiosity

• 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.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Experience
  • Nature
  • Know

• The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Honest
  • Deserve
  • Colorado

• I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Book
  • Movie

• 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.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Struggle
  • Courage

• 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.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • Mind
  • History
  • Perspective

• To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Light
  • Shadow
  • Candle

• Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • People
  • Work
  • Help

• There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Like
  • Fish
  • Fresh

• 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.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Long
  • Today
  • Guy

• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Fun
  • You
  • Names

• 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.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • Time
  • Popular
  • Television

• As long as I love Beauty I am young.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Long
  • Love
  • Beauty

• The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Mind
  • Best
  • Body

• Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Home
  • Kind
  • Presentation

• Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• There's an absolute surety to the hands-on conservation lifestyle of hunting, fishing and trapping where you know you're going to consume today.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Today
  • Know
  • Hunting

• When I come home and I'm tired from filming all day, I expect her to be there and make sure everything is cool for me. You know, like drawing my bath and helping me into bed.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Home
  • Day
  • Cool

• I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • American
  • Reality
  • Fear

• We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • May
  • Care
  • Mistakes

• Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.

  

  Seth Lloyd
  • Energy
  • Memories
  • Advantage

• 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.

  

  Bill Foster
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