Burton Richter Quotes

The reason why Three Mile Island makes such a big impact is because of a Jane Fonda movie called 'The China Syndrome.'

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• I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.

  

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• As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I'd get a boob job.

  

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• With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?

  

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• Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

  

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• We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.

  

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• I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.

  

  Walid Muallem
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• I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.

  

  Karel Reisz
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• It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

  

  Galileo Galilei
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• I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.

  

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• I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.

  

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• In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

  

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• I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

  

  Adam Jones
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• It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.

  

  Walter Cronkite
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• I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.

  

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• I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.

  

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• At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

  

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• When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.

  

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• I'm constantly hydrating my hair.

  

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• It was a mistake to think that my views would have been taken on their own terms. It was a mistake to think that my last name wouldn't be a factor.

  

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• They'll all pee blue for one week to ten days, for about the duration of the show. The first opening I've enjoyed!

  

  Jean Tinguely
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• I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

  

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• People say, 'Well, why don't they get another job, why don't they pick themselves up by their bootstraps?' Well, the people that say that probably have the kind of jobs where they don't work that hard, so maybe they could have another job.

  

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• The reason why Three Mile Island makes such a big impact is because of a Jane Fonda movie called 'The China Syndrome.'

  

  Burton Richter
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