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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No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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I’m gonna swallow my pride, say I’m sorry. Stop pointing fingers, the blame is on me. I want a new life, and I want it with you. If you feel the same, don’t ever let it go.
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Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood.
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There's something about getting onstage in a play where the actor tells the story, beginning, middle, and end, the way they want to tell it. For me, it's the most powerful place to be, and it's the most empowering place to be.
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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.
