Charles Willeford Quotes
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The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling.
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I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.' I decided I would do all the things they did on that show.
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Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.
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In every single 'Tinker Bell' movie, I feel like there's a message that I'm proud to communicate with kids.
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Anything looks good if you've got the body of a Victoria's Secret model and the porelessly smooth skin-tone of a piece of glass.
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Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell.
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In A Glass of Cider It seemed I was a mite of sediment That waited for the bottom to ferment So I could catch a bubble in ascent. I rode up on one till the bubble burst, And when that left me to sink back reversed I was no worse off than I was at first. I'd catch another bubble if I waited. The thing was to get now and then elated.
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Doth not this Æthereal Medium in passing out of Water, Glass, Crystal, and other compact and dense Bodies into empty Spaces, grow denser and denser by degrees, and by that means refract the Rays of Light not in a point, but by bending them gradually in curve Lines? And doth not the gradual condensation of this Medium extend to some distance from the Bodies, and thereby cause the Inflexions of the Rays of Light, which pass by the edges of dense Bodies, at some distance from the Bodies?
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My decision to come to Bell Telephone Laboratories immediately after obtaining my Ph.D. in 1936 was strongly influenced by the fact that my supervisor would be C. J. Davisson.
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... Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one's glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one's nose.
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I can't go along with all that shit about having to give everything up. I'd always say to them in the clinic I'm still going to have a Guinness, I'm still going to have a glass of wine. They say you can smoke 400 cigs a day and drink 20 cups of coffee, but you can't have a line or a drink again.
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I joined Bell Laboratories at Crawford Hill in 1963 as part of A. B. Crawford's Radio Research department in R. Kompfner's laboratory.
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Unlike water or wine or even Coca-Cola, sweet tea means something. It is a tell, a tradition. Sweet tea isn't a drink, really. It's culture in a glass.
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An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.
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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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I was at a party New Year's Eve, and - no lie - at least 10 different people came up to me. One guy was like, 'I lost 30 pounds because of you.' So people just coming up to me. I don't know these people - random people.
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My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.
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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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Roe v. Wade very clearly sets out that there can be regulations on abortion so long as the life and the health of the mother are taken into account.
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I'm not against the technology at all, I just don't like to use it if it's just to mimic what you can do with traditional methods.
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I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.
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The diver’s chest. Hoke pushed the bell, and the glass
