Arthur Leonard Schawlow Quotes
It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
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If I ever had needed to put together a CV, it would be quite short. Like many young people, I'd highlight my desire to work hard.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.
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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.
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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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My father is very dry and very quick-witted, and my mother is very silly. It was the perfect combination because I got an education in physical and verbal comedy.
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I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brainer situations.
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When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.
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Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.
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Why give you answers you wont believe?Well, answers I don't believe would be a step forward.
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Can't get up in the morning lately and I'm just sunk in a dream I'm always the ship in the stream
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
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You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.
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Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.
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I don't think she ever had a single initiative at the United Nations that was not previously [vetted] by the people at the State Department, approved of, and authorized. She did manage to get around the world an awful lot, and find other parts of her vast slum project that needed repair. But I don't think that that was the main point. The main point was that she, after all, connoted Franklin Roosevelt, who by then was long dead, and had a certain prestige and power on that account.
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It seems to me that when confronted with the marvels of life and the universe, one must ask why and not just how. The only possible answers.
