J. Allen Hynek Quotes
As a scientist I must be mindful of the past; all too often it has happened that matters of great value to science were overlooked because the new phenomenon did not fit the accepted scientific outlook of the time.
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I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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Going home, spending time with the family, I feel they're my friends as well, all of them. I look forward to meeting any one of them for a coffee, and when we all get together, I just love it.
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Tara: No more talk of gloomy Angel, though. Only happy thoughts. Sunshine, picnic, that spell we did last night. With the oil?
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But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors.
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Poor decisions and free throw shooting haunted us. I was disappointed in our ball control.
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As a scientist I must be mindful of the past; all too often it has happened that matters of great value to science were overlooked because the new phenomenon did not fit the accepted scientific outlook of the time.
