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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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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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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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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The United States was an innocent victim after September 11. It had never attacked or occupied Afghanistan. So therefore it had no choice but to go after the aggressors.
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I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.
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I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.
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And our size: The company this year is going to be close to $50 billion, so if that's the case and you can continue to grow that fast, I would rather put my energies to solving customer problems and growing our business than worrying about integrating and laying people off.
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Steve Jobs had something like a 90% approval rating from his employees. You hear stories about him being this short-tempered, aggressive person, which he was. But he was in the pursuit of making people around him better, so the product they created would be better.
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I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.
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If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.
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I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.
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My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
