William Bradford Shockley Jr. Quotes
The objective of producing useful devices has strongly influenced the choice of the research projects with which I have been associated.

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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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Our leaders must hear us speaking on behalf of our brothers and sisters in South Sudan. If the moral duty to save lives and work toward peace is not compelling enough to drive decision-makers, we must remind them that we care and will hold them accountable.
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If Dana White can offer a contract that's not one-sided, and it's not cumbersome to the point where we look at it and realize that we can't fight for him, then we'll fight in the UFC.
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I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
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I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.
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When things are scary, or there's a struggle, I always think, 'How is this going to sound in my biography?' Sometimes I would just be living on protein shakes or the cheapest food that I could afford because I didn't have a lot of money.
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
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I want to produce a country album for a country singer.
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Running through airports with pounds of luggage - that's a good workout.
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A person who sees a problem is a human being; a person who finds a solution is visionary; and the person who goes out and does something about it is an entrepreneur.
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Lo que me digo, ¿quién lo dice?
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There's nothing greater in the world than when somebody on the team does something good, and everybody gathers around to pat him on the back.
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We need to encourage people to speak up, to speak out, because the more people who participate in our democracy, the more our democracy grows.
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There are writers, and there are readers who want something more. They want to get at the grist of life.
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The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.
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The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.
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No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.
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I always dreamed of being an entertainer. So, my whole life to some extent, or from the age that I can remember onwards, I knew I was going to have to make some sort of attempt at being noticed for being funny.
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Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.
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People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.
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If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I've no problem shooting them.
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The objective of producing useful devices has strongly influenced the choice of the research projects with which I have been associated.