Harold Urey Quotes
I looked for it heavy hydrogen, deuterium because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or be the basic for the most powerful weapon ever known the nuclear bomb ... I thought maybe my discovery might have the practical value of, say, neon in neon signs.
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You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.
Barbara Lynn
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
Nancy Kress
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Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be evil. And the evil sometimes is the best!
Tasha Smith
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I don't know any Londoners 'cos I'm from Manchester.
Karl Pilkington
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I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.
Octavia Spencer
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The strength of America is not in Washington.
J. C. Watts
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The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.
Ralph G. Neas
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In India, the investment banking industry is a little different. Overseas, the structures are very complicated, but not in India.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
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I am always most excited about the newest material I am doing, and other songs get put back on the shelf or dropped.
Maria Muldaur
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I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging.
Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
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And it is not repentance that saves me — repentance is only the sign that I realize what God has done through Christ Jesus.
Oswald Chambers
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When I'm scrambling between dress and air, there are people I like more than other people.
Lorne Michaels
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Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
Lou Holtz
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Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off forever.
P. J. Plauger
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We've got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it's love that gives you the strength. It's being nice to people and having a lot of fun and laughing harder than anything, hopefully every single day of your life.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading and you'll go through a phase where you will imitate your favorite writers and that's fine because that's a learning experience too.
Joanne Rowling
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Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
Umberto Eco
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Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
Erica Jong
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Gardening is in large measure a phenomenon of attention.
Allen Lacy
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I hate to make predictions, but I think the economy is going to be permanently changed for the worse. I think our foreign policy is going to lead to changes that will be definitely for the worse, particularly if we drift into a nuclear Iran, which I gather that's what the administration is doing.
Thomas Sowell
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I looked for it heavy hydrogen, deuterium because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or be the basic for the most powerful weapon ever known the nuclear bomb ... I thought maybe my discovery might have the practical value of, say, neon in neon signs.
Harold Urey