Jack Kilby Quotes
Five years ago, people were crying and feeling the Japanese were about to take over the Earth. I don't hear that kind of talk anymore.
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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If you're not having fun - I don't care what you're doing - don't do it. Move on. Find something else, life's too short.
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A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it.
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I think the issue is that Americans traveling abroad if gotten into legal problems should have access to a fair trial and an impartial tribunal.
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The origins of my career as a peace mediator can be found from my childhood years. I was born in the city of Viipuri, then still part of Finland. We lost Viipuri when the Soviet Union attacked my country. Along with 400,000 fellow Karelians, I became an eternally displaced person in the rest of Finland.
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Five years ago, people were crying and feeling the Japanese were about to take over the Earth. I don't hear that kind of talk anymore.
