John Desmond Bernal Quotes
The goal of efficiency was a system in which all relevant information would be available to each research worker in an amplitude proportional to its degree of relevance.
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But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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The body is the one thing you have to say goodbye to. You can hold on to your memories. You can hold on to the spirit. That's part of the package that you love and the part that comforts you.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the pinch with no end in sight.
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The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
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The retired L.A.P.D. motor cops who work set security now, all wear the same uniform, they're great guys with great stories, and they're great at their job, providing security on sets.
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Given the divisiveness and pain that have accompanied several state religious freedom laws, I approach attempts at legislating religious exceptions to anti-discrimination laws with great sensitivity and care.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.
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For me, there's nothing better than curling up in my favorite blanket on a cloudy or rainy day and just knit. Especially in front of the fireplace.
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We're all trying to be Beyonce and Sheryl Sandberg at the same time.
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I couldn't bloody believe a prime-time TV show would have an Iraqi ex-Republican Guard torturer as a main character.
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I love drama - mum calls me a Drama Queen!
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Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me.
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All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art of Conversation pauses with so much care to make it understood that we must not judge of the capacity of a man by the excellence of a happy remark that we heard him make. Let us penetrate, says he, the mind from which it proceeds. It will oftenest be seen that he will be made to disavow it on the spot, and will be drawn very far from this better thought in which he does not believe, to plunge himself into another, quite base and ridiculous.
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Don’t wait for people to be kind, show them how.
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Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Christian religion, and a people who reject its holy faith will find themselves the slaves of their own evil passions and of arbitrary power.
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The best way to develop people is to constantly get them out of their comfort zone.
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Television was our chief tool in selling our policy.
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The goal of efficiency was a system in which all relevant information would be available to each research worker in an amplitude proportional to its degree of relevance.
