Burton Richter Quotes
Total failure isn't something I want to spend a lot of time envisioning. I'm pretty sure I'll recognize it if it comes.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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I am a big music nerd.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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I want Bolivians to support their president.
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Different films, different genres show the different things I do. It's nice because it brings different groups of people to following what I'm doing. So hopefully, it kind of reiterates that I'm not just a one-trick pony as well.
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I think that the world is very complex. I think that the movie is a good way to ask questions. To give answers, you would write a lot of books.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Any time I wind up in the lane where you can't quickly turn off of it and it's turning into the freeway, I just start screaming until I'm off of it.
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I think a lot of jobs, with that additional artificial intelligence, we can augment human capabilities and impact.
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Total failure isn't something I want to spend a lot of time envisioning. I'm pretty sure I'll recognize it if it comes.
