John Tukey Quotes
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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I think violence can never be justified.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
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I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
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I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
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I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
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Along with our friends in the GCC, the first order of business is stability. Beyond the imperative of stability, the most important priority is job creation for all Bahrainis.
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Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
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Fuseproject was founded in 1999, and the notion behind it, which is alive and kicking today, is fusing different disciplines. Our teams are absolutely incredible at their own discipline, but most importantly, they're incredible at partnering with each other.
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I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.
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If there is one thing that I take pride in, it is the fact that I never, ever make a charge without offering a substantial amount of support for it. You may ultimately end up not agreeing with me, but you will have to concede that I offered much evidence in support of my position, something that people frequently do not do.
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There is something addictive in space that makes you want to go back - like the mountain climbers who want to go back to the Himalayas although their fingers were cut by frostbite.
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The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.
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Harper Lee's novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird' became iconic almost immediately after appearing in 1960: best-seller status; the Pulitzer Prize the next year; a classic movie soon after, with Gregory Peck in an Academy Award-winning role.
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Wrestlers give their bodies to their work. I don't know if I like the word 'crazy' here. What I would say is there are people who have a different relationship to their bodies than most people.
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I'm still always surprised that anyone might be interested in my work or me.
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If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful work.
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Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work.
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If we are going to make a mark (key 21), it might as well be a meaningful one.
