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.

  

  Zubin Mehta
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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.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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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?

  

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

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
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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.

  

  Barney Ross
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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.

  

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

  

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

  

  Karl Rove
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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.

  

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

  

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

  

  Ian Mcewan
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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.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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• I like to call someone a raving c**t every now and then, when it’s appropriate, for effect (...) ‘You cocksucker.’ I love that kind of language.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
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• Well, there are certain foods that I prefer not to eat because they're just such a jolt to the system.

  

  Mary Tyler Moore

• I run everywhere and eavesdrop. It's the best way to see a city.

  

  Elayne Boosler
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• I want to see us add more dollars to the classroom.

  

  Doug Ducey

• Somebody ask me, 'Alberto, why you not race in Torino?' I finished my career here in 1998, the 15 of March which was my last victory.

  

  Alberto Tomba
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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
  • Why
  • Movie