Eric Allin Cornell Quotes
My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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The way to really scale a venture firm is with software.
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.
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That's still the greatest high, that feeling of being in control of 2,000 people. It's me and them, and I like the odds. It's not even so much the funny. It's getting them quiet. In the quiet moments in '700 Sundays,' I just really love that they're getting moved.
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Obviously, when you break a school record it means a lot. She is amazingly talented. She is doing things that typically takes two or three people to do.
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I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age seven, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. And I was hooked. When my eighth grade art teacher, Mr. Smedley, told me he thought I had actual art talent, I decided to devote all my efforts in that direction in the hope that I might someday get into the comics biz. I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.
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Sometimes, fame does scare me. When people know where you are and what you're doing, that can be frightening because I'm such a private person. So I like to try and keep things light-hearted and stay as private as possible.
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My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.