James Van Allen Quotes
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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I like to argue with the radio.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as we make it, so it seems to be entirely free. It seems to be completely up for grabs. But of course it's not.
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I still tour like a man possessed, because I am.
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There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.
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Green policy is about triggering a shift to a cleaner way of doing things. To be effective, it needs to incentivise the right behaviour, for example through tax breaks, and that needs to be paid for by disincentives on polluting behaviour.
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Men are taught that if we are not the ultimate provider, we are a complete failure. We have to be number one in everything we do. There is nothing more delusional or paralysing than what I have just described.
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We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
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I came from a real working-class show business family.
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All the soul of man is resolution, which in valiant men falters never, until their last breath.
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast.
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My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived; and as I can do neither good nor evil, I must be borne away by others and meet the common fate.
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Ik vind, dat er nog altijd iets moois overblijft, aan de natuur, de zonneschijn, de vrijheid, aan jezelf, daar heb je wat aan. Kijk daarnaar, dan vind je jezelf weer en God, dan word je evenwichtig. En wie gelukkig is, zal ook anderen gelukkig maken, wie moed en vertrouwen heeft, zal nooit in de ellende ondergaan!
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People ask me the most naive questions. Someone asked me if we have indoor toilets. I can't get upset. They just don't know.
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I never feel more confident and comfortable than when I'm wearing a Tom Ford suit.
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Get married wherever you like, make accommodations for the people you love so they can attend, and forget about the people who can't.
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Entrepreneurs are constantly developing new technologies and services. But too often, they're unable to bring them quickly to market for consumers because regulatory inertia stands in the way. Unfortunately, the FCC can suffer from this government-wide problem.
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All that you touchYou Change. All that you ChangeChanges you. The only lasting truthIs Change. GodIs Change.
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Generally, it's a great exercise to not get stuck in one medium too long because you begin to lose perspective on the peculiar drawbacks and strengths of the medium. For example, if I'm in the back of the stage and I want you to see my emotional change by a flicker of my eyelid, we're all going to be in for a long boring evening.
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The truth is - and this is corny - I fall more in love with Portia all the time. I really do. She surprises me all the time.
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These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.
