John C. Mather Quotes
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Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
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When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it's a platform for instantaneous response.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I still have nightmares about taking tests.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
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Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.
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I think it's always very important to be comfortable and just kind of expressive; if you take fashion too seriously, then you lose the fun of it. I think you should always take the risk.
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Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
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Like every actress, I, too, had movies that got stuck, but I have learnt to always look at the best in every situation and to give my best to every situation.
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The Internet is a gift to fashion.
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I like 'Shameless.' The first season I just watched it straight through. I literally didn't get up. I just had to finish it.
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Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.
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We put our life on the line to fight for them, put on a show and these guys take our money so whatever happens to Bob Arum, Don King or anyone else is fine with me.
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After a major loss of dynamism in the 1960s, productivity growth rates began dropping in most countries, falling by half in the U.S. in the 1970s and more or less ceasing altogether in France, Germany and Britain in the late 1990s.
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Loopt isn't a service that keeps you locked in, staring at your screen.
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Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant.
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I am a big advocate of female entrepreneurs. I do what I can to advise and help them along in their careers.
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I'm not a guy to go in the studio and spend months, let alone years, like some people do. I cannot even be in the studio for a month, it will drive me nuts.
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You always get apprehensive before you do shoots.
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I think the best content on BuzzFeed is something you share with someone else in your life, and it connects you to them. And that's a big part of what e-mail's about as well.
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Do not make grand plans. Be flexible.
