Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Quotes
In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
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Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.
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New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
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I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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I think of 'Mommy' as very simplistic or not simplistic, but I wish for the style to actually work with what you see onscreen and what you feel in that very moment. I hope we did not disrespect the characters by being too flamboyant when it's not necessary.
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My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.
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That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.
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Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.
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To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
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I basically have a very positive philosophy of life, because I don't feel I have anything to lose. Most things are going to turn out okay.
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I feel like I'm meant to be a mom.
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A modern librarian, who has faith in the law that 'BOOKS ARE FOR USE,' is happy only when his readers make his shelves constantly empty. It is not the books that go out that worry him. It is the stay-at-home volumes that perplex and depress him.
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The public, obviously, they takes things in a very simplest fashion and so they should. That's why we have such wonderful television.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.
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In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.
