Raja Krishnamoorthi Quotes
The most important thing is to recognize that research is our seed corn. It's a national security priority. It's not just a way to have enough going on that graduate students can do their Ph.D.s and scientists can publish. We have to do research, or we'll fall behind the rest of the world.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.
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We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.
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Immigration is a good thing. We should make that as easy as possible.
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Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.
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I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
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During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.
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Big stories need human stakes.
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My family is more important than my party.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
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God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.
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I remember back in the '90s, I used to feel criticized by women for not having children. Like there must be something wrong with me.
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Most students of nature sooner or later pass through a process of writing off a large percentage of their supposed capital of knowledge as a merely illusory asset. As we trace more accurately certain familiar sequences of phenomena we begin to realize how closely these sequences, or laws , as we call them, are hemmed round by still other laws of which we can form no notion. With myself this writing off of illusory assets has gone rather far and the cobweb of supposed knowledge has been pinched (as some one has phrased) into a particularly small pill.
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The most important thing is to recognize that research is our seed corn. It's a national security priority. It's not just a way to have enough going on that graduate students can do their Ph.D.s and scientists can publish. We have to do research, or we'll fall behind the rest of the world.
