James Bryant Conant Quotes
It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate.
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I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.
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There is something impure in the laments about the dangers of our time, as if they could serve to excuse our personal failure.
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Keeping with our family tradition of sending their children abroad for a couple of years, and aware of my interest in chemistry, I was sent to a boarding school in Switzerland when I was 11 years old, on the assumption that German was an important language for a prospective chemist to learn.
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I like to take risks as long as they're healthy, you know. They're good, smart risks.
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I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.
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Actors come in, and they have their own take on things, and you have to adjust on the fly to make sure everything still works structurally and dramatically.
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We must not be anything other than what we are.
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Manage by exception.Only require reporting when there is a deviation from the plan.
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They get to the quarter-finals, Bill, I'll show up with a dress on
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Having departed from your house, turn not back; for the furies will be your attendants.
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I want people to get positive energy from our music.
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I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum...
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No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there?
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Tim Burton, let's face it: he's into stitches.
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When making a film, if I feel nothing in my body, I can't work. I have to touch. I have to feel. I never stop touching.
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Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.
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There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.
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I love India. I love to visit the country.
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What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consiousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression and with all this yet to die. It seems like a hoax, which is why one type of cultural man rebels openly against the idea of God. What kind of deity would crate such a complex and fancy worm food?
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Thought experiment is in any case a necessary precondition for physical experiment. Every experimenter and inventor must have the planned arrangement in his head before translating it into fact.
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When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.
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There’s a whole art to setting up the Hammond so that it just sounds great, and he knows what it is. I’m still learning.
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Popularity is a bubble. It's a mountain: you can go up really hard but walk down really fast.
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It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate.
