John Charles Polanyi Quotes

In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.

John Charles Polanyi

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I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.

Eddie Redmayne
- Free
- Fear
- Action
I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.

Carl Lewis
- People
- Best
- Ideas
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Abraham Lincoln
- Up
- Time
- Live
There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.

Ira Glass
- Kind
- Thought
- Story
My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Moment
- Memorable
- Boston
It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

Barack Obama
- World
- Work
- Children