Jocelyn Bell Burnell Quotes
If you look at other countries, you'll find lots of girls doing physics, engineering, and science. It's something to do with the kind of culture we have in the English-speaking world about what's appropriate for each of the two sexes.
Quotes to Explore
-
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
-
I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
-
Men are every bit as gendered as women.
-
Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.
-
If the Knesset is a temple, then Feiglin is the idol. A Knesset where Feiglin presides is an impure Knesset.
-
You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
-
You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
-
I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
-
Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
-
You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
-
When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.
-
One of the first coaches I worked with on the national team told me that I was too skinny, too puny, and had no natural acceleration. He said I'd be better off looking for another facet of sport to follow. That was a really, really bad moment. For a long time, I felt as if my dad was the only one who had faith in me.
-
The media is controlled.
-
What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.
-
I never really drank coffee in college, but now I'm on my feet all day and out all night and can't believe it hasn't always been in my life. When morning comes I crave it.
-
I'm very unpopular for my dislike of this food, but I've never liked avocado. Everyone gives me so much flack for it because they tell me how healthy it is for me, how delicious it is. I don't like it, but it's not for lack of trying. I tried to like it, and it's just not my thing.
-
Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.
-
I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.
-
I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.
-
In 'Attachments,' which is told from a male point of view, people asked me if a man would really think that much about whether a woman likes him. But I have a husband and three brothers, and they're all like that.
-
It's important for parents to watch for trouble and convey to their daughters that, if it comes, they are strong enough to deal with it. Parents who send their [adolescent] daughters the message that they'll be overwhelmed by problems aren't likely to hear what's really happening.
-
Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.
-
Eroticism is born at a time in civilisation when sexual instinct becomes deanimalised and enriched with contributions from art and from literature. A world of theatricality emerges around the act of love.
-
If you look at other countries, you'll find lots of girls doing physics, engineering, and science. It's something to do with the kind of culture we have in the English-speaking world about what's appropriate for each of the two sexes.
