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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I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
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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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I like to do designs on the side of my face, or cut out foil stickers from the crafts store and put them on my forehead.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found myself feeling different. I was often the only person of color in an otherwise all-white school. And within the Indian community, because of my training with an English acting teacher, my accent was very different.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
