Jocelyn Bell Burnell Quotes
When I started secondary school, it was assumed that the girls would do domestic science and the boys would do science, and I wasn't too happy with that.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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As a team, we have a lot of work ahead of us in FY16 and beyond, but I am confident that, working together, we will make Microsoft a leader in the mobile-first, cloud-first world.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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You do what is manageable, and you do it well rather than trying to do a thousand things just a little bit OK.
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When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.
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A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.
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I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.
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Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
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When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.
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But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.
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Science is the greatest of all adventure stories, one that's been unfolding for thousands of years as we have sought to understand ourselves and our surroundings.
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When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.
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I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don’t like. No other criterion exists for me.
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There's nothing wrong with wanting to be the best, but when it takes over the joy in the moment, and the joy in the journey, then that's where there's an internal tension. And I have to surrender that.
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When I started secondary school, it was assumed that the girls would do domestic science and the boys would do science, and I wasn't too happy with that.
