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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Two young actresses I admire are Emma Stone and Emma Watson, because they are intelligent, talented actresses and have a great sense of humor. They have learned to balance what they love in life - acting, school and everything else.
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The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.
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I agree that you might clone some people who would look amazingly like their parental cell donors, but the odds are that they’d be almost as different as you or me, and certainly more different than any of today’s identical twins.
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Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious.
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My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
