Ernest Lawrence Quotes
The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
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Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.
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In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.
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I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that's part of football. That's like a firefighter knowing he is going to go into a fire at some point. You know you are going to be put in danger's way, and you accept that risk, and you do it.
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The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.
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Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.
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On a big film, there's almost no way you can meet everyone. On an indie, there are 30 people and no trailers to duck into.
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Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what - it's not. It's rough as guts. It's great.
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This dark diction has become America's addiction.
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My own death threats have declined considerably.
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That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
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I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.
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I love the music from Nat King Cole, BB King, Albert King... When I think of it, I wouldn't mind being renamed Angus King.
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My dream is to get gold medal both in the world championship and the Olympics.
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Making peace is harder than making war.
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This was the first time we had two ex-Soviet Cosmonauts in Houston. A lot of us, including me, viewed it with some skepticism, because I grew up during the Cold War, so I had been hit with all this propaganda all along that their stuff wasn't that good, it wasn't that safe and we were so much better. What I found out later was that their space stuff was very good and good enough that I was certainly comfortable flying on their equipment. So, it was kind of a revelation of sorts as the years went by and I think it underscores the importance right now of international cooperation.
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The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.
