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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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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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 was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
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The thing with prosthetic feet is you can't have all this crazy motion, or you'd be all over the place - because it's mechanical, and it's outside your body.
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If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
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Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends, to toil for your luxury and lust of gain? Must every tender feeling be likewise sacrificed to your avarice?
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Life is the most spectacular show on earth.
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I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.
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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.
