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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As a professional soccer player, I need to get touches on the ball every day, and obviously it's a lot easier to do that with a team than to motivate yourself to do it by yourself.
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Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.
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I want to be a Bond girl. Think about it - I have metal components in my legs, so when I go through airport security, I set off the alarms. But when they realize why I'm beeping, they let me through. What if I had weapons in my legs? I could take one off and pull out an Uzi! Legs Galore - that would be me!
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And when I look back I recognize now that I indeed do come from a large family of artists. Whether they necessarily realize it or not.
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Health care should be a right; it should never be a privilege. We should have Medicare for all in this country.
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So now, if we don't fund the physical sciences, where will the Next Big Thing come from?
