Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Quotes
There is nothing personal in the thunderclap of understanding. The lightning that releases it comes from outside oneself.
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I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
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I love America a lot. I really do.
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Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.
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The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.
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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.
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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
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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.'
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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.
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Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.
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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.
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I can get away with anything. But when I try to be sincere, people just roll their eyes.
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I really like the Gorillaz and Arctic Monkeys.
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We are not sent to do battle for God, but to be used by God in His battles.
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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
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You work [as an actor] for a bit, and then the job ends 'cause you get thrown off a bridge. And then, you suddenly don't have a career and you have to wait for the next bit to come along. It's the most strange profession in the world.
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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.
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The Nazi radio blamed us for every filthy evil thing in this world. The Nazis called us subhuman and, in the next breath, superhuman; accused us of plotting to murder them, to rob them blind; declared that they had to conquer the world to prevent us from conquering the world. The radio said that we must be dispossessed of all we owned; that my father, who had dropped dead while working, had not really worked for our pleasant flat—the leather chairs in the dining room, the earrings in my mother’s ears—that he had somehow stolen them from Christian Austria, which now had every right to take them back.
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There is nothing personal in the thunderclap of understanding. The lightning that releases it comes from outside oneself.
