John Forbes Nash, Jr. Quotes
I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.
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I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.
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'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.
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Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.
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You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.
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I'm sick of the tabloids' saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don't like it.
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Refugees come to us seeking asylum, seeking freedom, justice and dignity - seeking a chance just to breathe. And people in our country are saying close the doors and don't let them in?
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Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich.
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You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
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For me, I don't like it when there is too much interference in our lives. We're not children. It is our own life in our hands.
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Tenderness and rot tenderness and rot share a border. And rot is an aggressive neighbor whose iridescence keeps creeping over. No lessons can be drawn from this however. One is not two countries. One is not meat corrupting. It is important to stay sweet and loving.
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First off, it's wonderful how much people are supporting me and felt I should have stayed in the competition.
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Most competition in Silicon Valley now heads toward there being one monopolistic winner.
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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.
