Burton Richter Quotes
I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.
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I've done it all.
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As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
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A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.
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I'm the type of guy who likes to be there 24-7. I'm Mr. Roses.
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I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else.
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The best thing Clinton could do - I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure - is to shut up.... He has no discipline.
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No way that any astronaut worth his salt volunteered for the space program to become a hero. You don't select astronauts who want fame and fortune. You select them because they're the best test pilots in the world, they know it, and it's a personal challenge for them. And the astronauts of today are exactly the same.
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I've just always had a soft spot for character actors.
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What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.
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I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.
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I just find things that work and embellish them.
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Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.
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Interestingly, the American Embassy mentioned that our efficient relief effort has significantly improved the image of the United States among the Pakistani people.
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We recorded the record on a Saturday afternoon March 30th and I heard the record for the first time on April 6th. I was driving to school, literally seven days later.
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Not everyone can march, but everyone can talk. And everyone can reach out, and everyone can vote.
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We must bear in recollection that the sentiment of the picture is that of solemnity, not gaiety & nothing garish, but the contrary - yet it must be bright, clear, alive fresh, and all the front seen.
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I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.
