John Tukey Quotes
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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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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Everyone is living for everyone else now. They're doing stuff so they can tell other people about it. I don't get all that social media stuff, I've always got other things I want to do - odd jobs around the house. No one wants to hear about that.
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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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The sky outside the window was changing rapidly from deep, velvety blue to cold, steely gray and then, slowly, to pink shot with gold.
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Probably in all our history no foe has been so detested as were the Japanese. Emotions forgotten since our most savage Indian wars were reawakened.
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We've just got to keep it going until he can get back in the right frame of mind, which he's not going to do in the next two months, regardless. I don't care what anybody says. He's going to be able to hide it, but it's going to be very difficult for him to get back to the right frame of mind.
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Someday I won’t be able to do this. The right time is now.
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I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.
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Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.
