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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I'm married now, but back when I had girlfriends, you were always wondering if they liked you, and if you liked them enough. You're together, but the smallest thing could make one of you go 'You know what? This isn't working!'
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Some men feel threatened by the idea of feminism. This comes, I think, from the insecurity triggered by how boys are brought up, how their sense of self-worth is diminished if they are not 'naturally' in charge as men.
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Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.
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I'm not great on television. That's one reason I don't do it very often.
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Some comments are within bounds, while some are not. But by whining about every little barb, candidates are trying to win the election through a war of staff resignation attrition, and Americans are losing the ability to distinguish between what is fair game and what is not.
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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.
