John C. Mather Quotes
We have our religious traditions coming from many thousands of years, and I think to myself, well, you know, if Moses had come down with tablets from the mountain that said, 'And guess what? There are protons and neutrons, and they are made out of quarks,' people wouldn't have understood what he said. So he didn't.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
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Philosophy was once considered science.
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People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
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I don't desire happiness. I think it's a myth, and I don't think it's... and it makes you complacent. I feel very satisfyingly uncomfortable. I have the freedom to feel uncomfortable in the way I want to, is maybe a way to put it.
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When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.'
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John Wayne treated me fine, but that macho stuff turns me off. It's not real.
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I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody.
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I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you.
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I'm not trying to fit in with nobody. I'm just me.
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I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
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We have our religious traditions coming from many thousands of years, and I think to myself, well, you know, if Moses had come down with tablets from the mountain that said, 'And guess what? There are protons and neutrons, and they are made out of quarks,' people wouldn't have understood what he said. So he didn't.
