Halton Arp Quotes
Picture yourself during the early 1920's inside the dome of the Mount Wilson Observatory. ... Humason is showing Shapley stars he had found in the Andromeda Nebula that appeared and disappeared on photographs of that object. The famous astronomer very patiently explains that these objects could not be stars because the Nebula was a nearby gaseous cloud within our own Milky Way system. Shapley takes his handkerchief from his pocket and wipes the identifying marks off the back of the photographic plate.
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I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.
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Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
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Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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I have always been a strong champion for New Hampshire's environment.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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We did 356 'Dallas' episodes between 1978 and 1991. The most memorable moment for me happened in 1980 when I got shot at the end of the third series. The rest is a blur.
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Books are humanity in print.
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When you lose your freedom, you are alone with your emotions and reactions... you can see, for example, the bad reactions you have in front of others or the way you could be dismissive or harsh.
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Most Americans descend from the very people who built this country with their bare hands.
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As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.
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Life is a thread that someone entangled.
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Wearing a cape doesn't do much for your social life.
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I love marketing a lot, and I'm very creative when it comes to developing ideas for shows or publicity campaigns.
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I've been involved in and out of the U.N. for many years - in fact my first internship was in 1971, so it goes back a couple of years!
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The math works. Over the course of a season, there's some predictability to baseball. When you play 162 games, you eliminate a lot of random outcomes. There's so much data that you can predict: individual players' performances and also the odds that certain strategies will pay off.
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I have been very lucky, I have only had one bad experience.
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You ask politicians a question, and they have an answer. It's almost like the more articulate the answer, the more something feels wrong because that question takes thought.
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Two sides to a story exist when evidence exists on both sides of a position. Then, reasonable people may disagree about how to weigh that evidence and what conclusion to form from it. Everyone, of course, is entitled to their own opinion.
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When you are sad or in pain or sick or you witness any cremation then you actually learn the many truths of life.
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I have a very wide spectrum of stuff that I grew up listening to.
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The four of us couldn't have made a record with the time left over when we were shooting the show. We were on stage from 7.30 in the morning 'til 7 at night. Later on, when there was a break from filming, and we were sick of doing it the old way.
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Picture yourself during the early 1920's inside the dome of the Mount Wilson Observatory. ... Humason is showing Shapley stars he had found in the Andromeda Nebula that appeared and disappeared on photographs of that object. The famous astronomer very patiently explains that these objects could not be stars because the Nebula was a nearby gaseous cloud within our own Milky Way system. Shapley takes his handkerchief from his pocket and wipes the identifying marks off the back of the photographic plate.
