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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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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I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.
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How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!
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If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something, then there are lots of people and a big production involved. The money is more natural somehow. For me, I am just on my own in the studio, trying to make things work. One thing is sure: it doesn't make painting any easier.
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If I could have just one more wish, I'd wipe the cobwebs from my eyes.
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My father had a big brick cell phone, before anyone had a cell phone, because he was really just into that kind of thing - communication devices. I grew up between my father's laboratory and my mother's library.
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Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.
