William Whewell Quotes
Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.
William Whewell
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
Taylor Swift
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
Langston Hughes
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
Kara Swisher
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
Patrick Wang
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
Walter Cronkite
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
Salman Rushdie
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I've had teammates I didn't get along with, who hasn't? I've never had a teammate call me a bad guy, while he was my teammate, and if he did when I was gone what kind of teammate was he anyway?
Curt Schilling
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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.
Enid Bagnold
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Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired
Ellis Peters
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In 'Attachments,' which is told from a male point of view, people asked me if a man would really think that much about whether a woman likes him. But I have a husband and three brothers, and they're all like that.
Rainbow Rowell
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I started off at Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island, and started doing theater in Manhattan in 1969.
Joe Morton
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Astronomy is ... the only progressive Science which the ancient world produced.
William Whewell