Shannon Lucid Quotes
When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
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The media is controlled.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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I don't watch a lot of TV.
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On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.
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Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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When I'm at school, I usually put my hair up. High pony, side pony, or a bun, I like my hair out of my face.
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From 1991 to 2000, I was totally nomadic. I was travelling 300 days a year and building out my research. These were a bit like my learning and migrating years, so to say.
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Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
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Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.
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Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire.
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We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.
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Rand`s [Paul] a libertarian. He has a view of the world that I don`t share. He said that we shouldn`t have any troops in Iraq. He agreed with Obama that was a disaster. When there was a chance to do something constructive about Syria with a no-fly zone, he said we don`t need one.
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Yeah, I'll pay your cab fare home, you can even use my best cologne, just don't be here in the morning when I wake up.
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It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.
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Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.
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When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science.
