Nathaniel Rich Quotes
In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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I had to work with a psychiatrist.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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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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I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.
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I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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I try not to get too self-absorbed.
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The point is that I am such a big fan of Puccini and that Butterfly is the most difficult and complete role that you can imagine. Just to sing it with a good voice is not enough: it asks tears from your soul. I am very emotional on stage, and the music is so tender that I suffer for real when I am singing it. So I cannot do many performances.
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Sure, I miss some things about the stage. The thing I like is the immediacy. But then I complain, 'I gotta do the same part for six months.'
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I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
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You don't burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.
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In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.
