John C. Mather Quotes
There is strength in numbers, but organizing those numbers is one of the great challenges.
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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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I've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, and my mental coach.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
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To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
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There came a point in time when Michael was under a great deal of pressure to alter the film in a way that was just disturbing to him. I had not seen the movie, yet. He phoned me in July of '92 to look at his version.
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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.
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Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
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I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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For me, doing a show is great, but I want women to be able to wear the clothes easily as well.
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We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.
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I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.
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Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.
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That's the great thing about incubating something on the web: you have the potential to go to other platforms. Every single platform has a different audience that you find.
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I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.
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Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.
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My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.
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I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.
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We are a race of women that of old knew no fear and feared no death, and lived great lives and hoped great hopes; and if today some of us have fallen on evil and degenerate times, there moves in us yet the throb of the old blood.
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There is strength in numbers, but organizing those numbers is one of the great challenges.
