Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Quotes
There is nothing personal in the thunderclap of understanding. The lightning that releases it comes from outside oneself.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
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Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.
Yehuda Amichai
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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
Karl Kraus
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Playing a cop goes a long way. I have a lot of friends who are working as actors, and as soon as I started playing military characters or cops, and not the actual criminal that we're chasing on this show, they all said, 'You actually can have a career now.'
Omari Hardwick
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Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.
Francesco Guicciardini
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Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.
T. B. Joshua
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When you're shooting a movie, it's two months of your life usually. You don't really have time to see anybody else. Your friends are put on hold while you're shooting, and what you have is the family that you create on set.
Odette Annable
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I can get away with anything. But when I try to be sincere, people just roll their eyes.
Zach Galifianakis
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I really like the Gorillaz and Arctic Monkeys.
Jay IDK
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We are not sent to do battle for God, but to be used by God in His battles.
Oswald Chambers
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The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides
Quentin Crisp
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Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative sound or scent, but some episodes of those short years remain clear and brightly coloured like a landscape seen through the wrong end of a telescope.
D.E. Stevenson
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I just don't understand, if they see numbers [of CEO salaries]that represent people, how they can somehow skirt around that and morally justify taking or ruining those lives and leaving them with nothing. That, to me, is violent crime. It's certainly more violent than selling grams of pot to other adults.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
