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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It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.
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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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I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.
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A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists in a fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever before.
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In Indian companies, people aren't too worried about the pace of growth as long as you're setting up a business which will survive for years.
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There is no human law or law of God or national law that states that any healthy being has to permit the snake to eat the mouse - but on the other hand, it is perfectly justified to defend the mouse.
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So now, if we don't fund the physical sciences, where will the Next Big Thing come from?
