John Tukey Quotes
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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I don't get angry very often, but there have been times when I have been frustrated with myself, maybe after playing a bad shot, after getting out, I have done some damage to some equipment of mine. Once or twice in the course of 20 years – I think you can allow me that at least.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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I think in a lot of situations I had got songs stolen from me, or treated badly.
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I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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On 'Swingtown,' I think that's when I was able to blend the character-slash-leading lady roles, and that's what I'm doing on 'Once Upon a Time' as well. She's a leading lady, but she's also this character.
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I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.
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I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
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He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest.
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I've learned from every single fight, every single opponent - some great fighters.
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I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.
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I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.
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Throughout his eight years in office, Barack Obama endured a campaign of illegitimacy waged either by pluralities or majorities of the Republican party. Donald Trump rooted his candidacy in that campaign. It's fairly obvious.
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Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.
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In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance.
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Even Jimmy Carter can't be wrong all the time.
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When I arrived in the U.S., I knew little English and didn't have any friends. The neighborhood and school kids were so welcoming. They made me feel at home very quickly.
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We have long suspected that the faceless organisations that run our world - be it the church, multinational conglomerates or the government - keep things from us.
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Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.
