Ian Foster Quotes
There were some quality things in the game but we just didn't do any of it for long enough.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.
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Every sport has its own cast of characters.
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My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
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Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
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I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.
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My dialogue coach said to do a Texas accent, you lean on the next word, and that was the clue to me.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk - especially in new undertakings. Courage to initiate something and to keep it going, pioneering an adventurous spirit to blaze new ways, often, in our land of opportunity.
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Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training.
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There were some quality things in the game but we just didn't do any of it for long enough.
