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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I'm thinking my next book should be set on a tropical island, which will obviously require days, even weeks of meticulous research, but I'm prepared to make that sacrifice. That's just the sort of dedicated writer I am.
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The most dangerous part of the race is early evening and especially early morning. It's the twilight zone. Either you're going into darkness and the sun is dropping down, or you're coming out of the darkness and the sun is coming up. At the same time, you've got new drivers coming in and feeling their way around the circuit.
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After a year and six months, it's no longer me that you want. But, I love you so much it hurts. Never mistreated you once; I poured my heart out to you. Let down my guard, swear to God. I'll blow my brains in your lap, lay here and die in your arms. Drop to my knees and I'm pleading; I'm trying to stop you from leaving. You won't even listen, so...
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And I just want to tell you this - we're in favor of a lot of things and we're against mighty few.
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There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.
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My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
