James Cronin Quotes
When the violation of parity was discovered I began a series of electronic experiments to investigate parity violation in hyperon decays.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
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Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
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You can always plan where you think your life is going to go but I don't think you can really plan your future.
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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.
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Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
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Everyone is looking for the hack, the secret to success without hard work.
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I am essentially a recluse who will have very little to do with people wherever he may be. I think that most people only make me nervous - that only by accident, and in extremely small quantities, would I ever be likely to come across people who wouldn't.
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Cockneys make good beggars. They are held in high esteem by the fraternity in America. Their resource, originality and invention, and a never-faltering tongue enable them to often attain their ends where others fail, and they succeed where the natives starve.
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It is the heritage of anguished centuries, and it distinguishes us from all other people-us, the youngest and last people of our culture. ...
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There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.
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The usual bad poem in somebody’s Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one’s teeth.
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Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!
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My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
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After we were married, we were broke. Flat broke. Not only did we not have health insurance, we could barely keep a roof over our heads, let alone have the kind of coin to throw around on onesies and Pampers.
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I was 'impressed' by Hugh Jackman for five seconds the first time I met him, but as soon as he opened his mouth and shook my hand, I felt comfortable. He made me feel like I was one of his friends.
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I've always been a bit of a gypsy.
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With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.
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When the violation of parity was discovered I began a series of electronic experiments to investigate parity violation in hyperon decays.
