Jocelyn Bell Burnell Quotes
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While many in the social enterprise space often qualify themselves as 'non-profit,' these organizations should instead treat themselves as 'for-purpose.' These organizations should focus on their mission to create social good, while still treating themselves with the same commitment to rigor and discipline as the best for-profits.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end.
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I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
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I loved the challenge of being able to take a character who could be thrown away as 'crazy' and making her identifiable to the audience - also, to give her a vulnerability that people would cheer for.
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If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.
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You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.'
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There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.
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I choose work with the people I like to work with.
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Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York.
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I'm a guy that's worked out in the weather since I was 16. I can tell there's climate change. The cause? I'm not smart enough for that.
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The international monetary system is the glue that binds national economies together.
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When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird’s beak, We shall live well - we shall live very well.
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The kids today have these fresh faces. It's like they're on pins and needles, waiting to see what I'm going to do. They've never seen me. In the 1960s, those were hippies. They were wired up already. The kids today know me because I've worked with Jeff Tweedy and other young producers.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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I watch what I eat obviously. I'm not a regular gym-goer but I'm conscious of it.
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There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.
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A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
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There’s a long pause. But it’s not a bad pause, because Mik is looking at me like I’m the treasure from the high shelf that someone’s just taken down and put into his hands. I find I don’t mind being looked at like this. I don’t mind it at all.
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As American families and businesses have been forced to tighten their belts, Washington has refused to do the same.
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If it wasn't for the stars, we would not be here.
