Maurice Wilkins Quotes
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Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I want to be the coolest aunt in the entire world.
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We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
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In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe.
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Every time I'm in Canada I feel more Swedish, and every time I'm in Sweden I feel more Canadian. I belong in both places and I love them both equally. It's funny because the Swedes claim me as their Swedish pride and the Canadians call me their Canadian girl. I'll take it all.
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Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
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Ask Jeeves! Who ever used that thing? College freshmen to find out who Goethe was - that's it.
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I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.
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Obviously I've had great experiences with people I've worked with on films - I've married half of them! I should come with a warning sign that says, 'Don't worry, I'm not going to try to marry you. I'm done.'
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A lot of new girls are arriving every day - let them do the glamour roles! I am done with ultra glam outfits and five song routines - hereafter, I want to do meatier roles, now that I've acted with all the biggies.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.
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He never went mad in your sense. My dear fellow, you're very much wrong if you think there was anything pathological about him - then. The man was brilliantly sane. His mind was as keen as a keen sword. I couldn't understand him, but I could judge of his sanity right enough.
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A man that steps aside from the world and has leisure to observe it without interest and design, thinks all mankind as mad as they think him.
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DNA is like Midas's gold, everyone who touches it goes mad.
