William Scranton Quotes
My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have.
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The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.
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When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons.
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Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.
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In the old days, you had an audience of about 400, half of whom were committee members from somewhere or other sitting in their suits. It's become a real sports event with sports fans now.
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Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny.
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As a drama student I got into Thirties and Forties suits.
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The Laboratory for Radioactivity consisted of only two rooms at the time; at a later date, when tests of radioactive substances became more extensive, it expanded into four rooms.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.
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When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.
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I'm a traditionalist with suits. It doesn't need extra pockets, and I don't want headphone jacks in my jacket. I appreciate designers who do different things, but for me, the most basic version of that item is what I want.
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Sir Rosevelt is a little more of a persona, and we dress up, three-piece Tom Ford suits, and it's a little more refined, visually.
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Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare.
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No righteous rules, however rigid, are too stringent for me; I will live above them.
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Wipe out the imagination. Stop pulling the strings. Confine thyself to the present. ...Divide and distribute every object into the causal formal and the material. ...Let the wrong which is done by a man stay there where the wrong was done.
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If you follow anything that I've ever done, I never stick to one thing more than one year. I'm just afraid to get typecast.
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Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.
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No matter what race or color you are, you can aspire to do something great.
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What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.
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The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.
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I wish feminism wasn't so scary to people. It should be an evolving concept. I think it's an umbrella term to embrace conflicting ideas.
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the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes
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I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.
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My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have.
