Philip Warren Anderson Quotes
An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
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If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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Sometimes God presents opportunities that look insignificant or rather ordinary. Perhaps you don't see how they fit into the big picture for your life. But if God is asking you to do something, He has a purpose for it.
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I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks.
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I am a contrarian.
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One of the most important things we hear is the S.B.A. needs to be ubiquitous. We do all these things, but people still don't know.
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Singing is the thing apart from my family that gives me the most joy in the world. I don't ever spend a day without singing.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.
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I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.
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An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.
