C.P. Snow Quotes
The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.C.P. Snow
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
Karen Bender -
When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.
Kapil Sibal -
Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
Kara DioGuardi -
It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
Malcolm Forbes -
I'm as radical as libertarians come.
L. Neil Smith -
Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
Carl Andre
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One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
Gary Locke -
Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
Dan Aykroyd -
It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.
Wendie Malick -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel -
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
Jackie Robinson -
For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
Zoe Kravitz
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
Naguib Mahfouz -
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
Fran Lebowitz -
I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.
Dabney Coleman -
I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
Laura Dern -
Salesforce's Chatter is what convinced me that the company understood what is going on in the enterprise; this was the biggest attraction for me. I saw that Salesforce understands social.
J.P. Rangaswami -
The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.
Cameron Winklevoss
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We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.
Samora Machel -
I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
Paloma Faith -
I've got so many weaknesses.
Mehmet Oz -
I think it's impossible to get any movie made, let alone a character story. Even with big stars, which we had, there were challenges. But we got through it, and we're really happy that we made the movie. It's easier to make giant robot movies, but I'm not in that game.
Sacha Gervasi -
It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself.
Socrates -
The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.
C.P. Snow