Saul Perlmutter Quotes
I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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My sister taught me addition and subtraction and multiplication and division, so by the time I got to school, I knew it all, and when we'd do the times tables, I was just focused on doing it faster than anybody else. I already had the information, so it just got me to focus on excellence.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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Singing and being truthful to a song... I've developed that skill, and I know how to do that real instinctively, that's all I've been doing for the last 25 years.
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In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.
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When I give I give myself.
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Why consider debates in the English House of Commons in 1628 along with documents on American developments in the late eighteenth century? The juxtaposition is not capricious, because the Commons during this period generated many of the ideas that were later embodied in the government of the United States.
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I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping for an audition.
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Here in America, just as we see such incredible progress happening in one state, we see another state passing absolutely disgusting and oppressive laws against the rights of all sorts of people - transgender people, gay people, women.
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I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.
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Our passions are like convulsion-fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.
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There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
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Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.
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After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.
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I was uncomfortable with smoking too much because a lot of young kids watch and I didn't want to make that cool.
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I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot
