Richard Feynman Quotes

If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.

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• I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
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• I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.

  

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• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  

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• It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.

  

  Maggie Q
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• I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it's an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.

  

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• More than 13,000 Malaysians travel to the U.K. to study in British universities every year.

  

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• There's always chatter about a 'Chuck' movie. So nobody's opposed to it. It's just a matter of getting everything lined up.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
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• I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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• There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
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• No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.

  

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• The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy. The study of self-actualizing people must be the basis for a more universal science of psychology

  

  Abraham Maslow
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• As a kid, I just loved cartoons. And as the credits went by, I'd study those names and then try to figure how I could get hired to do what Mel Blanc and Daws Butler did. Create all of these great voices for animated characters.

  

  Jim Cummings
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• My proposal now is to test a vaccine first on people who have been infected, and if you show some efficacy at this level, you might be able to go further to study uninfected people in a population with a high rate of infection.

  

  Luc Montagnier
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• There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.

  

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• Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.

  

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• Theater was something that I always wanted to study.

  

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• Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

  

  Bill Vaughan
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• Realists do not fear the results of their study.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
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• If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.

  

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• Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

  

  T. S. Eliot
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• If we were real domestic terrorists, shoot, President Obama would be wanting to pal around with us, wouldn't he?

  

  Sarah Palin
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• I'd like to start trying different fields of work. I don't want to be stuck in just comedy, and I'd be interested to try to break into the movie business because it's so much different than television.

  

  Nick Robinson
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• On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.

  

  Richard Feynman
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