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 we do acquisitions, we decide what we want. We decide what fills a hole. And if the price is too high, our alternative is the $5 billion we spend on R&D every year. We're not well-known for overpaying, because at Oracle we always have an alternative.
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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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Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over.
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I really like writing heroes who arent necessarily Hollywood handsome. Personally, I think men who are self-confident, intelligent, and funny are outrageously attractive - and my heroines tend to think that, too!
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I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most.
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Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?
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Food cannot take care of spiritual, psychological and emotional problems, but the feeling of being loved and cared for, the actual comfort of the beauty and flavour of food, the increase of blood sugar and physical well-being, help one to go on during the next hours better equipped to meet the problems (p. 124).
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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.
