William M. Fowler Quotes
From him Wilard Bennett I learned how different a working laboratory is from a student laboratory. The answers are not known! While an undergraduate, doing experimental measurements in the laboratory of his professor, at Ohio State University.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.
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It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game.
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I am somebody who is constantly hungry to nibble on something.
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I like meat and carbohydrates.
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I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.
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There is a certain hidden mediocrity in those who are stationed above us in life, an ability to take liberties in their pursuit of pleasures and diversions, without injuring the honor and respect we owe to them.
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You hear different things from different people, and they're all valid: they're all valuable. I think that's what comprises a performance is all those ideas.
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As he approached the place where a meeting of doctors was being held, he saw some elegant limousines and remarked, "The surgeons have arrived." Then he saw some cheaper cars and said, "The physicians are here, too." ... And when he saw a row of overshoes inside, under the hat rack, he is reported to have remarked, "Ah, I see there are laboratory men here."
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We haven't had a slew of artists, but the artists we do come out with have always had the same momentum.
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From him Wilard Bennett I learned how different a working laboratory is from a student laboratory. The answers are not known! While an undergraduate, doing experimental measurements in the laboratory of his professor, at Ohio State University.
