Felix Bloch Quotes
It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.
Quotes to Explore
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
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At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis's old Bel Air bachelor pad. It was where he first met the Beatles.
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The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.
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The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
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'Joy' to me is a reflection of the life experiences that I've had throughout the first record and kind of having some time and a hiatus. It's just like all of those experiences that I had during that period - that growing up period.
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What is man? ... What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force.
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It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.
