Burton Richter Quotes
So now, if we don't fund the physical sciences, where will the Next Big Thing come from?
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If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.
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Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.
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I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.
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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
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I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.
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The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.
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Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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Science is the most durable and nondivisive way of thinking about the human circumstance. It transcends cultural, national, and political boundaries. You don't have American science versus Canadian science versus Japanese science.
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Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
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Acting is the art of being and existing, and not being fake.
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I wasn't necessarily frustrated in Fall Out Boy, but there were things that didn't get satisfied, desires left wanting. We didn't all meet on the same kind of music. When bands break up, there are all these buzz words that get tossed around to maintain a front for the audience, but in this case there literally were creative differences.
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I can't play guitar if I blow my arm out.
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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Muß es sein? Es muß sein.
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I always practise penalties, but what people don't understand is that you can never recreate that pressure situation that you're under.
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To be honest, Im not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.
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Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.
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If we want to make Tiger Woods's or Al Gore's face, the best thing would be to have them come to our light stage so we can scan their faces for our database. But in a couple of hours, all we can do is find a face which looks similar and then correct it.
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So now, if we don't fund the physical sciences, where will the Next Big Thing come from?
