John C. Mather Quotes
Every time we get a story that says there was a Big Bang, then people want to know what was before that. And if we find out, what was before that?
John C. Mather
Quotes to Explore
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Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.
Carl Safina
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I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.
Olivia Munn
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I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.
Edie Campbell
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I've heard people tell me there's never been a gay character like Agron on TV before, and some fans have even thanked me because they now feel like they have a gay action hero, and it's very endearing to hear that kind of stuff. But I just played him the way he was and tried to do right by the character.
Dan Feuerriegel
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Making money is often more fun than spending it, though I personally have never regretted money I've spent on friends, new experiences, saving time, travel, and causes I believe in.
Sam Altman
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Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke.
Laura Hillenbrand
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One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.
Kate Forsyth
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln
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I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.
Barry McGuigan
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Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.
Nathan Myhrvold
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Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
Paolo Sorrentino
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There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.
Val Kilmer
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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I feel really humbled and really grateful to have the opportunities that I've had over the past couple of years to work with some amazing people. I think, at this point, I just want to put my head down and grind and do honest work.
Ben Schnetzer
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Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it's fun. While it's happening it's fun. I feel tall.
Ariana Grande
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Turning on the television set can turn off the process that transforms children into people... It is primarily through observing, playing, and working with others older and younger than himself that a child discovers both what he can do and who he can become — that he develops both his ability and his identity.
Urie Bronfenbrenner
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I feel like I am in the service of the poem. The poem isn't something I make. The poem is something I serve.
Jane Hirshfield
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Every time we get a story that says there was a Big Bang, then people want to know what was before that. And if we find out, what was before that?
John C. Mather
